Quotes About Assertion

This 'ruthless' determination of morphogenetic fields to assert their individuality reflects, in our terminology, the self-assertive principle in development.

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When he signed his contract for the 1999 season, he insisted that his salary be $1,200,000.99.

I understood that I was clearly insane. But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life. I

I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.

There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

Dagny, why is it that most women would never admit that, but you do?" "Because they're never sure that they ought to be wanted. I am." "I do admire self-confidence." "Self-confidence was only one part of what I said, Hank." "What's the whole?" "Confidence of my value—and yours.

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

you only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

Which one of you's the bitch?

Hear me proclaim this, you loathsome turd from the ass of Typhon.

could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no.

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Am I a dog," he roared, "that you should come at me with a stick?

All unconscious contents have, as complexes, a specific tendency, a striving to assert themselves. Like living organisms, they devour other complexes and enrich themselves with their libido.

I'm Hawkfrost.

Bramblestar mewed

What's wrong with you?' growled the wolf. Can't you see that I'm a big and dangerous wolf? I'm sure you are, replied the pig. But couldn't you be big and dangerous somewhere else? We're trying to read.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

I will freely spend nineteen shillings in the pound to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'