Defensiveness Quotes
Defensiveness Quote of the day
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.
All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.
The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.
You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.
Once you being defensive in your answer. Just know there is the truth in the question you have been asked, or there is truth in what they are saying to you.