Aggressiveness Quotes - Page 2

• It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Corruption, Fairs

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• [I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

  Young Thug

  Ambition, West, Charisma

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think quite remarkable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.

  Steve Purdy

  Thinking, Germany

  "Profile of a Golden Bear: Steve Purdy". BerkeleySportsBlog.com Interview, www.californiagoldenblogs.com. October 26, 2009.

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• U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Years, Administration

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.242, Macmillan

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Car, Steps

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• Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

  Allan Ray

  Important, Want, Aggression

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• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Shy, Facts

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• If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.

  Charles H. MacDonald

  Powerful, Pilots, Lists

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• Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

  David McCampbell

  Fundamentals, Shooting, Pilots

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• Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

  Robin Olds

  Attitude, Eye, Self Confidence

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.291, Macmillan

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• But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

  Albert Einstein

  Passion, Eye, Intelligent

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  Laozi

  Peace, Struggle, Successful

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• Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

  Paul Feig

  Honesty, Dirty, Nuts

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• Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Moon, Compassion

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• Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

  Tom Robbins

  Sausage, Silent, Repose

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• It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

  Tom Wolfe

  Animal, Important, Battle

  "Tom Wolfe on How Speech Made Us Human". Interview with Steve Heilig, www.sfgate.com. March 16, 2008.

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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• Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Defense, Blind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

  Heather Burns

  Driving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Moral, Offensive, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Self Esteem, Compassion, Achievement

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• The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was.

  Evander Holyfield

  Athlete, Discipline, Guy

  "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

  Linus Torvalds

  Lying, Home, Ties

  "King Of Geeks Linus Torvalds Defends His Right To Code In His Bathrobe And Curse At Other Developers". www.forbes.com. July 16, 2013.

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