Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I’m from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called ‘stimulus.’
I want the Wallwalker in the back of consumers’ minds, but not actively thought about. When it returns, they’ll react, ‘Oh, there they are!’ and they’ll buy them again as impulse items.
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don’t you? Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you’ve got to get out there.
I’m always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven’t written. I’m actively engaging in playacting.
I’ve always said yes to films because I have liked the people I’m working with. I’m very emotional that way about what I do. I’ve never pursued acting very actively.
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents – aside from ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’
If you haven’t created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you are only managing the business that comes in the door, not actively seeking it out.
The most exciting thing I’ve seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We’re subsidizing an economy. We’re not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day’s work. When we’re not rewarding work actively, there’s something wrong with the system.
We like to be the people who go – can go out into the world and say we’re the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.
I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.
I don’t know that a lot of boys read ‘Rookie’, but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I’m devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don’t actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you’ll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
My father, because he was an academic, he did not shy away from meeting with academics who focused on political science, sociology, he actively embrace that and he didn’t shy away from meeting with lawyers.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there’s a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.
In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it’s something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
I was running from the calling of God because I didn’t want the responsibility of standing upright and living under a microscope. I know now that others’ destinies rely on my destiny and purpose. I’ve accepted the challenge and am actively walking in that purpose.
Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.
I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and that a family is a great place to learn leadership skills. I’m sure I benefited by having a mom and mad, both of whom were actively involved in the community and in various enterprises.
People will pass and I’ll connect with them and they actually won’t be actively involved in their family’s lives.
Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.
I don’t want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It’s a life with a purpose.
I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn’t really actively pursue it.
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.
I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.
The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country’s rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations’ wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides’ pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance.
I was a stay-at-home mom, with an important job to raise the kids. I filled it into the occupation slot on innumerable immigration cards, looking at the officer with defiant pride. What was I then, now that actively raising my children was no longer my vocation?
I’ve been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.
What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
I’m always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I’d like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.
When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn’t have any time for my family.
We actively encourage teenagers not to have babies, we applaud young career women in their twenties, then before you know it you find yourself, as I did, aged 32 at a friend’s wedding and being quizzed by everyone about why you haven’t got round to reproducing yet.
Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle the ‘Republican pact,’ under which the two main parties had pledged to work together to defeat the FN at a national and local level.
