Defensiveness Quotes
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All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
— Bryant McGill
The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
— Russell D. Moore
It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced
— Peter M. Senge
Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.
— Richard G. Scott
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
— John O'Donohue
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
— Audre Lorde
The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.
— Davis Miller
People must have dignity and identity. If they can't do it peacefully, they will do it defensively.
— Joseph Tirella
At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
— Sheryl Sandberg
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
— Coco J. Ginger
Guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
— Robin Morgan
I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?
— Jay Woodman
The Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
— John M. Gottman
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
— Stephen L. Carter
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
— Christopher Hitchens
You can't see clearly through defensiveness.
— Bryant McGill
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
— Eben Alexander
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
— George F. Will
Author describes that a failed sea captain, vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
— Joseph Wheelan
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
— Larry David
