Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of taking action to create change instead of being passive.
Christopher Reeve's quote highlights the dichotomy between passivity and action in the face of life's challenges. It serves as a reminder that one has the power to influence their circumstances through active engagement rather than simply observing life as it passes by. By choosing to 'activate,' individuals are encouraged to pursue change and take control of their situations instead of remaining stagnant.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.
We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
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