Defensiveness Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image ““Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.”” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defensiveness People today Settling
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“someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle.” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
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“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should live their lives, but none about their own.” — Itayi Garande Copy Share Image
“In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.” — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore 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 fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
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“All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. — Dale Carnegie 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 and degenerates… — E. M. Forster 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 of guilt… — Dale Carnegie 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
I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses… — Marilynne Robinson 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 defend yourself… — Kimberly Giles 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
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
