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Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. -- Arthur Koestler
I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop. -- LeBron James
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. -- Noam Chomsky
When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax. -- Jenn Suhr
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -- Pope John Paul II
I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that. -- Latrell Sprewell
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. -- Robert Ardrey
Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble. -- Jimmy Rollins
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. -- Jeff Cooper
My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve. -- Paul Tergat
Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic. -- Richard North Patterson
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right. -- Bernard Bailyn
If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with. -- Venus Williams
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting. -- David McCampbell
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness. -- Sigmund Freud
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made. -- Albert Einstein
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise. -- Jeff Cooper
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it. -- Fulton J. Sheen
In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . . -- R.J. Rushdoony
I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation. -- Robert De Niro
I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force. -- Ron Paul
If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason. -- Jeff Gordon
In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, EEG biofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool, in part, because the patient becomes part of the treatment process by taking more control over his own physiological processes. -- Daniel Amen
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves. -- John Ralston Saul
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. -- Dorothy Thompson
The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. -- Larry Williams
I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving. -- Heather Burns
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together. -- Wole Soyinka
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. -- Al Leiter
I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness. -- Iggy Azalea
As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road. -- Mario Andretti
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. -- Linus Torvalds
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed. -- Tom Wolfe
Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness. -- Paul Feig
The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was. -- Evander Holyfield
I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness. -- Steve Purdy
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. -- Tom Robbins
[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma. -- Young Thug
In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive. -- Peter Senge
Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important. -- Allan Ray
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature. -- Jason Kenney
It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt. -- Wole Soyinka
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. -- Dorothy Thompson
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness. -- Rajneesh
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart. -- J. B. Priestley
I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone. -- Tony Gonzalez
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. -- Arthur Koestler
The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness. -- Laozi
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche. -- Joan Miro
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success. -- Eddie Arcaro
I donâ??t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness -- Carlos Santana

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