I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.
So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.
Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed ‘Conversations with Friends’ who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people’s labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!
The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.
When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
When you are seen as someone who actively communicates with new connections, it can make other online users want to connect with you.
I personally, generally, don’t really feel much emotion if there’s some problem and I’m actively solving it.
For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn’t run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or alienate the media, which is what Trump is doing, he is doing it actively.
I am not going to be one of these guys who doesn’t defend his belt. I am going to defend my belt actively.
We as artists are actively encouraged – by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society – not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we’re supposed to focus on the art.
In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.
Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
I’m pretty actively involved with the military because I think they’re incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they’re doing for us, it’s a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.
I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.
Gaming is something you have to force actively against and I will do this.
I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.
My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music – especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, ‘Keep your facts, I’m going with the truth.’
If you’re an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.
I’ve been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition.
The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can’t openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don’t just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
A lack of grace involves much more than critiquing an opponent. It looks a lot more like the ad hominem attacks the president launches nearly daily against all who aren’t actively worshiping him. It looks like Trump’s relentless attempts to pit Americans against one another.
Donald Trump’s own intelligence is publicly saying that Russia is actively trying to help him and hurt Joe Biden.
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we’d have a better society.
There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.
I’ve learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren’t.
American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.
You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.
I wasn’t really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, ‘Oh, I should be making this’ or ‘I should be collaborating with this person.’ It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.
I don’t think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
When I got to be a CEO, I said: ‘Right. I’m now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I’m going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.’
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I’ve been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn’t practice very actively.
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don’t ever get a pass.
I don’t really love the guitar hero trip, anyway, so it’s not something I’m actively searching for or after. I don’t like what it’s about.
Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a small fraction of their income from higher fees for this purpose.
Chimps don’t have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
I’m not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.
I think that’s a universal theme, you know: we don’t know who we’re going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There’s always that possibility, and while you’re not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.
To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
