Defensiveness Quotes

• The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Students
  • Improvement
  • Frustrating

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child a child of God becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Change
  • Confused
  • Response

• Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Life
  • Physical
  • Defensiveness

• Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Things
  • Cynicism
  • Levelled