… While healthy self-assertiveness requires the ability to say no, it is ultimately tested not by what we are against, but what we are for… self-assertiveness asks that we not only oppose what we deplore but that we live and express our values.29 ❋ KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN (2010)
Sometimes people who are essentially dependent and fearful choose a form of self-assertiveness that is self-destructive. ❋ KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN (2010)
Their own form of self-assertiveness is protest—whether it makes sense or not. ❋ KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN (2010)
Self-defense and self-assertiveness training is crucial ... even better, a detective relative, like EE's. ❋ Unknown (2007)
While Bond likes to complain about "the cheap self-assertiveness of young labor since the war" and the "buyer's market of the welfare state," he is conscious as well of declining British power and prestige, and resents the way that he and his country are patronized by the Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)
New prosperity is reawakening nationalist pride and self-assertiveness in China and Japan just as selfdoubt is tempting Americans to turn inward. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A new spirit is abroad on the continent, and the people of Africa are determined to use their newly-harnessed energy, pride and self-assertiveness to chart their own course of development and extricate themselves from the lowest rungs of human development. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Add a rising military challenge from China, as well as a growing sense of national self-assertiveness at home, and the result is a flourishing new debate about a once taboo idea -- the need for a full-fledged central intelligence service, something that postwar Japan has so far done without. ❋ Unknown (2007)
'A new spirit is abroad on the continent, and the people of Africa are determined to use their newly-harnessed energy, pride and self-assertiveness to chart their own course of development and extricate themselves from the lowest rungs of human development. ' ❋ Unknown (2007)
But as the paper had nothing on it no clue was afforded; yet feeling herself the proprietor of the column and of all around it her self-assertiveness was sufficient to lead her on. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Watching the comments scroll by and go between playful and serious is an interesting study of power, self-assertiveness and social connections. ❋ Torill (2006)
Yet, Chodorow's relational self seems to glorify weak individuation and scorn the independence and self-assertiveness that many women desperately need. ❋ Meyers, Diana (2004)
But the most striking thing about her was her self-assertiveness. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1993)
We are facing a massive awakening and growing self-assertiveness of peoples in Africa, Asia and Latin America who previously were the objects of policies originating in the Euro-centric world. ❋ Unknown (1979)
Nationalism in its fascist period — motivated partly by the fear of social change, and partly by the impact of modern civilization in countries insufficiently modernized in their social structure and overly traditional in their attitude — assumed far be - yond anything known in the period before 1914 an absolutist and extremist self-assertiveness, glorifying war between nations or races. ❋ HANS KOHN (1968)
Then it occurred to Danny that it wasn't merely self-assertiveness: it was fear. ❋ Stephen Marlowe (1968)
Productive work is the road of man's unlimited achievement and calls upon the highest attributes of his character: his creative ability, his ambitiousness, his self-assertiveness, his refusal to bear uncontested disasters, his dedication to the goal of reshaping the earth in the image of his values. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1961)
