When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“. . . mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.” — Liza Palmer Copy Share Image
A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?” — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Once you being defensive in your answer. Just know there is the truth in the question you have been asked, or there… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement,… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Learning, and especially unlearning, can take place only in the absence of defensiveness… [W]e can drop our defenses only when we love… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information.… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
“Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“When things get personal, we need to resist the natural male instinct to run for cover, man the defenses, or--worst of all--reach… — Jeff Feldhahn Copy Share Image
“Remember every mistreatment experience shows up to give you the opportunity to learn love at a deeper level. You don’t need to… — Kimberly Giles Copy Share Image
“It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced” — Peter M. Senge Copy Share Image
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
“Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
“Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the… — Daniel A. Hughes Copy Share Image
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness. — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
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