Defensive Quotes

232 Defensive quotes by 209 unique authors

Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in… — Phil Jackson
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. — Francis Parkman
We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in… — Stephen Covey
I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that… — Byron Katie
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to… — Warren G. Harding
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens
People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too — Tom Thibodeau
Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to… — Stanley Kunitz
To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again. — Ray Lewis
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked… — Unknown Author
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence. — Juan Goytisolo
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a… — Benjamin Tucker
Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by,… — Justin Tuck
Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely… — Calvin Coolidge
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in… — Edmund White
Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to… — Pico Iyer
Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies. — Dan Fouts

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