Quotes About Posturing

I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

the key to all diplomacy—was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing.

In my experience, you mon-keigh make a great many claims when it comes to your own prowess, awarding yourselves title after title, your psyches awash with the hope that such posturing will intimidate your foes." "Undeniably true, though that seems harsh criticism from a species that attaches poetic nonsense like" The Storm of Silence" and "The Cry of the Wind" to its demigods, no?

we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today's society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

The fight-or-flight dichotomy is the appropriate set of choices for any creature faced with danger other than that which comes from its own species. When we examine the responses of creatures confronted with aggression from their own species, the set of options expands to include posturing and submission.

Gunpowder's superior noise, its superior posturing ability, made it ascendant on the battlefield.

Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they're these huge tough guys... they're these gangsters, that they'll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me... the crickets start to come out. They don't really wanna fight.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.

All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.

I don't want to pose either with Obama or with Merkel.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so wäre.

I don't gotta act hard... People be getting face tattoos to act hard.

Brothers out here flexing their talk, setting themselves up for failures; just to prove a worthless point about what they are really doing in the streets. -MillYentei

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

These are the only genuine ideas: the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. He who does not really feel himself lost, is without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.