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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. -- Henry Cloud
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. -- John M. Gottman
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver. -- Larry David
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Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. -- Eben Alexander
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. -- Robin Morgan
Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost. -- Richard G. Scott
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. -- Audre Lorde
A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. -- Dana Gould
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. -- Carl Rogers
Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness. -- Dale Carnegie
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. -- E. M. Forster
I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith. -- Marilynne Robinson
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness. -- Adyashanti
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error -- Dale Carnegie
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God. -- Brian Weiss
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new. -- Carl Rogers
I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness. -- Jon Stewart
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness. -- Joseph Wheelan
When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world. -- Bryant McGill
Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. -- Melanie Joy

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