"My defensiveness in life really helps me as…" — Larry David

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• I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness. — Jon Stewart
• A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency… — Carl Rogers
• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a… — Deepak Chopra
• You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which… — Brian Weiss
• Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help… — Dale Carnegie
• Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. — Eben Alexander
• To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. — Henry Cloud
• Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a… — E. M. Forster
• In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted… — Carl Rogers
• The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. — John O'Donohue

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