Asserting Dominance Quotes

#1. People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Eric S. Raymond

#2. From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

Stanley Coren

#3. Well-written words are music.

William Shatner

#4. And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?

Bram Stoker

#6. Most of the good people of my generation ... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

Jack Germond

#7. WILLIAM, yesterday, he said that he relied upon the growing taste in Hoboken for Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States

Various

#8. We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

Euripides

#9. I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

Cameron Diaz

#10. The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#11. No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

John Wooden

#12. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

Donald Miller

#13. Those who go along get along.

Sam Snead

#14. We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Richard P. Feynman

#15. Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Kate Karyus Quinn