Quotes Tagged "aggressive"

Anger and aggressive behavior create a combative environment and temporarily reduces one’s ability to utilize their intellectual capacity. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2007

Confrontational forms of discussion never conclude without damage to both parties, especially if they are aggressive in nature.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

We're going to have to become very aggressive in addressing justice issues that have to do with fairness and doing that which is equitable and honoring to God.

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

We're going to be aggressive on Wall Street and in Albany and on Medicaid fraud.

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.