Assertively Quotes

#1. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.

Nathaniel Branden

#2. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Louise Colet

#3. There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

Niall Horan

#4. The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.

Chris Evert

#6. Twas beauty killed the beast," said the Dean, who liked to say things like that. "No it wasn't," said the Chair. "It was it splatting into the ground like that.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths

Melody Beattie

#8. Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

David Foster Wallace

#9. If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving.

Timothy Zahn

#10. Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Addictions are an attempt to preserve control over your feelings and your life and respond assertively to helplessness.

Lance Dodes

#12. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#13. As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.

Chris Milk

#14. Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Jim Stanford

#15. To see the object as in itself it really is

Matthew Arnold

#16. That's because we were never apart. Since we were kids, we were one. It has always been that way. We found a way back to each other, my love."
Luka's eyes bored into mine, a flare of possession in their glare. "And will always be that way," he said assertively. "I'm never losing you again.

Tillie Cole

#17. I try to look cute all the time.

Sloane Stephens

#18. We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

Patti Smith

#19. Birthdays are the best thing we can collect: the more birthdays we collect,
the more years we live.

Eraldo Banovac

#20. When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

Crystal Black Davis

#21. Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

Tony Judt

#22. Universe ... .. or Multiverse ... !!!

Sameh Elsayed

#23. And, if anything, are more likely to respond assertively. (1999:106) In

Pierangelo Isernia