Quotes About Assertiveness

The right to be the final judge of yourself is the prime assertive right which allows no one to manipulate you. It is the assertive right from which your other assertive rights are derived. Your other assertive rights are only more specific everyday applications of this prime right.

FOGGING is a very effective skill for desensitizing you to criticism and actually reducing the frequency of criticism from others. It rapidly sets up a psychological distance, boundary lines between you and the person you FOG.

Qué es ser hombre, para vos? --Es muchas cosas, pero para mí... bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine seguro, como mi mozo, que hable sin miedo, que sepa lo que quiere, adonde va, sin miedo de nada.

If a guy can successfully invade your space and get you to back down, he's won—he's alpha and you're beta.

But there's good news, folks. If you play your cards right in situations like the one above, you can avoid violence altogether most of the time. What's more, you can do so without having to back down or feeling like a wimp. These are the social dynamics this book is going to teach you.

One of the girls said, "I think you should go now." Virgil stood

walked back to Wood with a Wiener schnitzel on a stick and two Diet Cokes. He sat on the curb next to Wood, handed him a Diet Coke, and said, "For your own good." "Fuck you very much," Wood said. "But I suppose you're right.

Give me the goddamn names, Grace," Lucas said. "C'mon. Please. Talk to me. Save yourself." "Fuck you." — FORD CAME BACK, looked at Lucas, asked, "Get a name?" "Not unless it's 'Fuck you,'" Lucas said.

You're threatening me?" "I'm not threatening, I'm articulating," Palmer said.

Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie.

In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

To the women who are done with other people's shit

Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

Well, let's start with the big one," Creek said. "You're your own nation." Robin considered that for a moment. "For your sake, that had better not be a comment about the size of my ass," she said.   The

She said that we could all fuck ourselves with a rented dick. The same rented dick." "That's my mom," Kiva said.

that was less about the fundamental nature of the visions than the fact Gianni kept interrupting Chen, and she was sick of it.

Are you insane? You can't just barge into my office and tell people to fuck off.""And yet here I am," Kiva said. "In your office. Telling this extraneous dimwit to fuck off.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.

He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. They were fierce and they had no price. They never gave a damn about making a scene. They got what they wanted. Louie's grandmother had been a tyrant. She had got whatever she wanted by being fierce.

She stepped around in front of him and stopped him. "You look here, mister. You kiss me now." "Why?" She said slowly, "So everybody will know that I'm Mrs. Lettuce-head.

Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch.

Samuel, she said, you're the most contentious man this world has ever seen. Yes, Mother. Don't agree with me all the time. It hints of insincerity. Speak up for yourself.