Quotes About Getting Defensive

#1. Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.

Paul Reubens

#2. We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

Beth Moore

#3. Getting defensive doesn't hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses.

Tony Curl

#4. My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#5. Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Rumi

#6. Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#7. If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys.

Brendon Burchard

#8. Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Jodie Foster

#9. To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Nikola Tesla

#10. I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

Brendan Daly

#11. Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Max Planck

#12. It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else.

Jon Stewart

#13. So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.

But that is a story for grown-ups.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. There is no way to undo something already done, or to dress up a naked truth.

Dixie Waters

#15. But she didn't pull away from him. If anything, she seemed to sort of melt against him. It was the
first time she'd willingly accepted something from him without getting stiff and defensive and
generally annoyed

Maisey Yates

#16. When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#17. 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

#18. but its most important characteristic was an ability to analyze the emotional beats of a movie without any of its members themselves getting emotional or defensive.

Ed Catmull

#19. ... in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown. But now it's gone; they say it doesn't matter anymore. ...

Lauren Kate

#20. My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Joey Logano

#21. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman