When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it.
I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.
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.
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.
guilt politics. . . I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
