Stop Being Defensive Quotes

#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. It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

David Brin

#3. joy is in fact our birthright and even more fundamental than happiness. "Joy,

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Your breaking point is often your blessing point.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

Lita Ford

#6. 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

#7. To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Gustav Stresemann

#8. I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.

Lee Daniels

#9. Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#10. First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

Elliott Abrams

#11. I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#12. Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Sophie Swetchine

#13. All roads lead to where you are, right now.

Robin Spielberg

#14. Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Paglia

#16. Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

Pontus Hulten

#17. She reminded herself bitterly that this was what curiosity had bought her: fifty keystones for a singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, some one who was hers and yet would never be hers.

Marie Rutkoski