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If something doesn’t sit well with you, rather than being passive aggressive about it, acknowledge what is or isn’t working and then have a conversation with whoever is giving you this assignment, defiers usually don’t feel equipped to have these conversations with who they see as authority figures, or they don’t believe that having the conversations would give them any benefit or positive outcome. … That’s not necessarily true. – Jenny Yip	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why every time something happens bad, or how someone reacts, ‘Aw, he’s crazy, there’s something wrong with his mental health,' there’s nothing wrong with my mental health. Someone told me to get the f--- out of here. I’m not passive-aggressive. – Antonio Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China is keen to exploit cleavages in our defenses to acquire information it considers sensitive and treating this issue as a pure law enforcement matter only plays to China's strategy, because doing so does not account for China's passive collection of information in support of its military aims. – Craig Singleton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the first stewards of the land and ocean, our traditional knowledge can guide the way, all together we hold the keys to solving the issues of militarization, climate change and climate colonialism. We are not passive victims. I am here to amplify the voices of those who live on the frontlines. – Sheila Babauta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I find helpful the Stoic notion of indifferent things—all the stuff that doesn’t matter or matters a relatively tiny amount, and of thinking through what ideas, including false ideas, my feelings might be based on. It’s cognitive therapy but it’s also Stoicism. I also find that reading Seneca can cheer me up, even apart from any ethical or psychological tips I might glean, because his style is so effective; it’s absorbing and fun, and it’s hard to feel angry or upset when you’re busy following a rhetorical avalanche. A while ago, I re-read Seneca’s On Anger during a particularly difficult and enraging time in my personal life, and I did genuinely find it helpful. It’s useful to have a reminder of how much being angry can hurt the person who is indulging in the feeling. I try not to be angry, and also not to be passive or ignore what’s wrong; it’s a tough balance. I like that Seneca and the other Stoic-influenced writers are so deeply interested in these essential daily questions of how to manage our feelings, and how feelings relate to action. – Emily Wilson	added by AnaDay 2 years ago
Now we need to start focusing more on active measures to help people take up the jobs that are available, rather than passive measures that pay people not to work. – Tony Wilson	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
This lava fountain is kind of unusual for Great Sitkin, but it’s been fairly passive at this point. – Chris Waythomas	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have never called anyone' f ** t' in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind, i have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining Matt Damon' one of the good guys'. And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ + community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst. – Matt Damon**	Found on CNN 2 years ago
New York Magazine’s a return to how I assume things existed in this town, there’s something gross about New York Magazine, though New York Magazine’s a much lower-grade gross than what we were dealing with before … The Biden White House necessitates more operating, The Biden White House requires a phoniness. They’re passive aggressive, whereas the Trump people were aggressive. – Olivia Nuzzi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I used to think being passive was enough - I just didn’t take part, but I decided to speak up. – Katarzyna Lipka	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Since Brexit, [ Donald ] Trump and Boris [ Johnson ]... people aren't afraid to be racist. I always thought it was a passive ignorance in this country and now I see blatant racism. It's clearly always been here and it's now allowed by people in power. – Nadia Thomas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Most passive funds [ that track the index ] will be essentially compelled to buy the stock. – Nick Hyett	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's what kind of made you all come up with the original' hey we're just going to knock, try to get her to the door', you know, the most passive way to serve the warrant, right. – Jason Vance	Found on CNN 3 years ago
For investors that have had big gains and are mostly in passive ETF strategies, now may be a good time to put some cash on the side and realize some gains. – George Schultze	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Under the index, the Pensions Board portfolio will have a 49.1% lower carbon intensity than its current passive allocation, were the latter companies (ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP) to set emissions targets covering all their emissions that align to the Paris Agreement then the Index rules would allow inclusion. – The Church	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Pacific Gas and Electric as we know it may or may not be able to figure this out. If they can not, we are not going to sit around and be passive, if Pacific Pacific Gas and Electric and Electric is unable to secure Pacific Gas and Electric own fate and future... then the state will prepare Pacific Gas and Electric as backup for a scenario where we do that job for them. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Part of the foundation of this company is that entertainment can be so much more than just a passive experience, we have these very fancy devices in our pockets that we use every day and just using them as a display screen seems wasteful. – Ben Sheats	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're well aware of the passive trend, and frankly I can't argue with it, if you're charging a high fee and not providing a higher service, then it's hard to justify. – Todd Beiley	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Instead of a passive wait-and-see approach to this issue, we proactively establish JV together...to jointly solve the global environmental problem...and thus respond to the environmental changes of resources. – Tsukasa Komatani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is an indication that SWFs (sovereign wealth funds) have slowly seen their sentiment change in the near term to global equities, both to active and passive strategies, as they had been removing assets at an elevated rate in the three quarters prior to Q2 2019. – Peter Laurelli	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It may be the case that while SWF's exposure to China will increase as a result of their exposure to passive global EM equity strategies, a segment to which they've allocated nearly $7 billion since the beginning of 2018, there is additional interest in supplementing that long-only index-based exposure to China with alternative approaches. – Peter Laurelli	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Passive investing in bonds does not work as well as it does in stocks. – Ken Nuttall	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We were quite surprised by this as we thought things would be getting better, it could be unconscious bias where people don't even realize they're selecting males, it could be passive in that males are easier to catch or easier to see in the wild, or maybe conservation concerns leading collectors to avoid females. – Natalie Cooper	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The weight of money flowing into products in this area, whether they are active or passive, will shift the cost of capital for companies. – Evy Hambro	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

If something doesn’t sit well with you, rather than being passive aggressive about it, acknowledge what is or isn’t working and then have a conversation with whoever is giving you this assignment, defiers usually don’t feel equipped to have these conversations with who they see as authority figures, or they don’t believe that having the conversations would give them any benefit or positive outcome. … That’s not necessarily true.

– Jenny Yip

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why every time something happens bad, or how someone reacts, ‘Aw, he’s crazy, there’s something wrong with his mental health,' there’s nothing wrong with my mental health. Someone told me to get the f--- out of here. I’m not passive-aggressive.

– Antonio Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China is keen to exploit cleavages in our defenses to acquire information it considers sensitive and treating this issue as a pure law enforcement matter only plays to China's strategy, because doing so does not account for China's passive collection of information in support of its military aims.

– Craig Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the first stewards of the land and ocean, our traditional knowledge can guide the way, all together we hold the keys to solving the issues of militarization, climate change and climate colonialism. We are not passive victims. I am here to amplify the voices of those who live on the frontlines.

– Sheila Babauta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I find helpful the Stoic notion of indifferent things—all the stuff that doesn’t matter or matters a relatively tiny amount, and of thinking through what ideas, including false ideas, my feelings might be based on. It’s cognitive therapy but it’s also Stoicism. I also find that reading Seneca can cheer me up, even apart from any ethical or psychological tips I might glean, because his style is so effective; it’s absorbing and fun, and it’s hard to feel angry or upset when you’re busy following a rhetorical avalanche. A while ago, I re-read Seneca’s On Anger during a particularly difficult and enraging time in my personal life, and I did genuinely find it helpful. It’s useful to have a reminder of how much being angry can hurt the person who is indulging in the feeling. I try not to be angry, and also not to be passive or ignore what’s wrong; it’s a tough balance. I like that Seneca and the other Stoic-influenced writers are so deeply interested in these essential daily questions of how to manage our feelings, and how feelings relate to action.

– Emily Wilson

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

Now we need to start focusing more on active measures to help people take up the jobs that are available, rather than passive measures that pay people not to work.

– Tony Wilson

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This lava fountain is kind of unusual for Great Sitkin, but it’s been fairly passive at this point.

– Chris Waythomas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have never called anyone' f **** t' in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind, i have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining Matt Damon' one of the good guys'. And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ + community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst.

– Matt Damon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

New York Magazine’s a return to how I assume things existed in this town, there’s something gross about New York Magazine, though New York Magazine’s a much lower-grade gross than what we were dealing with before … The Biden White House necessitates more operating, The Biden White House requires a phoniness. They’re passive aggressive, whereas the Trump people were aggressive.

– Olivia Nuzzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I used to think being passive was enough - I just didn’t take part, but I decided to speak up.

– Katarzyna Lipka

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Since Brexit, [ Donald ] Trump and Boris [ Johnson ]... people aren't afraid to be racist. I always thought it was a passive ignorance in this country and now I see blatant racism. It's clearly always been here and it's now allowed by people in power.

– Nadia Thomas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Most passive funds [ that track the index ] will be essentially compelled to buy the stock.

– Nick Hyett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's what kind of made you all come up with the original' hey we're just going to knock, try to get her to the door', you know, the most passive way to serve the warrant, right.

– Jason Vance

Found on CNN
3 years ago

For investors that have had big gains and are mostly in passive ETF strategies, now may be a good time to put some cash on the side and realize some gains.

– George Schultze

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Under the index, the Pensions Board portfolio will have a 49.1% lower carbon intensity than its current passive allocation, were the latter companies (ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP) to set emissions targets covering all their emissions that align to the Paris Agreement then the Index rules would allow inclusion.

– The Church

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Pacific Gas and Electric as we know it may or may not be able to figure this out. If they can not, we are not going to sit around and be passive, if Pacific Pacific Gas and Electric and Electric is unable to secure Pacific Gas and Electric own fate and future... then the state will prepare Pacific Gas and Electric as backup for a scenario where we do that job for them.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Part of the foundation of this company is that entertainment can be so much more than just a passive experience, we have these very fancy devices in our pockets that we use every day and just using them as a display screen seems wasteful.

– Ben Sheats

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're well aware of the passive trend, and frankly I can't argue with it, if you're charging a high fee and not providing a higher service, then it's hard to justify.

– Todd Beiley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Instead of a passive wait-and-see approach to this issue, we proactively establish JV together...to jointly solve the global environmental problem...and thus respond to the environmental changes of resources.

– Tsukasa Komatani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is an indication that SWFs (sovereign wealth funds) have slowly seen their sentiment change in the near term to global equities, both to active and passive strategies, as they had been removing assets at an elevated rate in the three quarters prior to Q2 2019.

– Peter Laurelli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It may be the case that while SWF's exposure to China will increase as a result of their exposure to passive global EM equity strategies, a segment to which they've allocated nearly $7 billion since the beginning of 2018, there is additional interest in supplementing that long-only index-based exposure to China with alternative approaches.

– Peter Laurelli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Passive investing in bonds does not work as well as it does in stocks.

– Ken Nuttall

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We were quite surprised by this as we thought things would be getting better, it could be unconscious bias where people don't even realize they're selecting males, it could be passive in that males are easier to catch or easier to see in the wild, or maybe conservation concerns leading collectors to avoid females.

– Natalie Cooper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The weight of money flowing into products in this area, whether they are active or passive, will shift the cost of capital for companies.

– Evy Hambro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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