Quotes About Being Defensive

#1. The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

Peter King

#2. Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

Dan Mangan

#3. When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

John Boorman

#4. People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.

Jess Weixler

#5. We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.

Michael Chipman

#7. Saul took their fear of the Philistines personally. Rejection always takes things personally, becoming defensive, and thus never allows us to see or hear things properly. Remember, the most commons signs of rejection are being defensive and taking things personally.

Anthony Hulsebus

#8. The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

David Eagleman

#9. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Alton Brown

#10. But as I glared up at Hawkins, I realized he was only looking down at me. "You got my attention. Now what are you going to do with it?" He said into the microphone.

Leah Spiegel

#11. Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
[sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

Ian Hacking

#12. The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.

Leon Max

#13. This
is the language of the world before - a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair - before
the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

Lauren Oliver

#14. I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.

Justin Cole

#15. I have my meals delivered ... you know what I like? Chicken and rice ... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat.

Hugh Douglas

#16. Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

Art Linkletter

#17. I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Noah Hawley

#18. The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

Gunter Brus

#19. I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.

Darrion Scott

#20. Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#21. We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Donald Tusk

#22. Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Tran Duc Luong

#23. Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Parkman

#24. I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.

Hugh Douglas

#25. And I know I'm sarcastic and defensive and I make a joke out of everything and am highly resistant to anything that reeks of sentimental corniness, but I'm giving you my heart anyway because being with you feels like home, and I know you won't break it.

Shauna Cross

#26. Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Saul Leiter

#27. To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

Moses Malone

#28. So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.

Paulo Coelho

#29. All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

Sidney Crosby

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Hale Irwin

#34. You should always be defensive, but never be offensive. This will help you to preserve your reputation as a human being.

Saaif Alam

#35. I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

Eric Cantona

#36. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#37. We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

Sharon Weil

#38. Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

Richard Griffiths