Defensive Person Quotes

#1. It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

Richard Pryor

#2. 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.

Anthony Kiedis

#3. Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

Bob Burg

#4. There is sadness and evil in the world, yes. There is also goodness and beauty and justice. The one is as real as the other, and we must keep that fact firmly in mind or lose all sense of proportion.

Jeanne M. Dams

#5. I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Dan Chaon

#6. Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

Ruud Gullit

#7. nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts - or does not react - by putting it on paper.

Mariela Griffor

#9. When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Jess Weixler

#10. An angry frontal attack puts even the most invulnerable person on the defensive.

Sue Patton Thoele

#11. He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat.

Confucius

#12. Imagine, I said, what could happen if English continues to grow as it has. Maybe one day it will be the only language left to learn. If that happens, I concluded, it will be the greatest intellectual disaster that the planet has ever known.

David Crystal

#13. When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they'll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.

Sam Owen

#14. I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

Melody Beattie

#16. Go with polar bears, I say to myself. Polar bears at the North Pole. Baby polar bears scooting along after their mothers in the snow. Polar bears drinking Coca-Cola.

Cynthia Hand

#17. Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?"
The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.

John Connolly

#18. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

Gustavo Gutierrez

#19. Our current path is a pretty simple formula for destruction.

Dan Brown

#20. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Dale Carnegie

#21. Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

#22. I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

Kimberly Caldwell

#23. Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience - self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light - constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.

Sam Harris

#24. If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

Snoop Dogg

#25. It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

Emily Blunt

#26. Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

Ndamukong Suh