Quotes About Defensive

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

I want to bring something where I'm going to help us create goal-scoring opportunities. Whether that's me just being able to play short passes to take out their front players or lead from the back and communicate in making sure that we're all organized so that when we're attacking, they don't have a chance to counter-attack us.

Obviously, teams are passing a lot more, and there are rules that... allow the offense to be more explosive, so you want to have as many defensive players and defensive playmakers and defensive backs that you can.

ADOLESCENTES EMOCIONALES Tienden a estar siempre a la defensiva. Son amenazados y alarmados por las críticas. Mantienen una puntuación de lo que dan para después pedir algo a cambio. Tratan mal los conflictos, generalmente culpan, apaciguan, van con una tercera persona, hacen mala cara o ignoran el tema por completo. Se preocupan por ellos mismos. Tienen dificultad para escuchar verdaderamente el dolor, las desilusiones o necesidades de otra persona. Son críticos y sentenciosos.

The term disorder of the self is descriptive of a personality disorder because these patients are out of touch with themselves. They identify themselves with a facade, a false defensive self that they have developed to adapt to a world that they perceive as hostile.

I think Von Miller's got great style. For a defensive end, I think he has receiver-type style, swag.

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon for the same reason ordered his generals to have the beards of the Macedonians shaved, because they were a convenient handle for the enemy to grasp.

If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I'd want you to hear is "unnecessary risk.

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.

You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.

I will bowl defensively if I have to.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

My own view – speaking as a historian rather than citizen – is that as long as Pakistan exists there will be Hindu fundamentalists in India. In times of stability, or when the political leadership is firm, they will be marginal or on the defensive. In times of change, or when the political leadership is irresolute, they will be influential and assertive.

Las emociones secundarias son aprendidas, mentales, y aunque algunas de ellas, bien administradas, puedan llegar a ser útiles, no parecen cumplir una función biológica adaptativa. Son defensivas o manifestaciones de un problema no resuelto, y casi siempre implican debilitamiento del yo: sufrimiento, ansiedad, depresión, ira y restricción-apego son algunas de las más significativas.

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

how do we account for the fact that laws, legends, and prohibitions relating to women have, from the early patriarchal myths (e.g. Eve) through the medieval witch-massacres and the gynocide of female infants down to the modern rape laws, mother-in-law jokes, and the sadistic pornography of our time, been hostile and defensive, rather than 'protective'?

Her lips were set grimly together, and she carried a small suit-case. She looked excited and determined, and slightly on the defensive.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

I don't like getting pinned back with a line of four in midfield. You risk losing too much space.

Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.