When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.Carol S. Dweck
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.Adam Grant
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.Robert Burns
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.Harry S Truman
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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.Clint Eastwood
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Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.Jerry Rice
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When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.O. J. Mayo
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.Barack Obama
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In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.Nemanja Matic
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I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.Diana Rigg
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Well-struck baseballs must land safely in the gloves of fielders; borderline calls must go the way of the artist on the mound. Pitch selection must be on point. Defensive genius must occur. And everyone must adhere to the time tested baseball tradition of superstition.Gabe Kapler
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Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.Maurizio Sarri
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Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.Ndamukong Suh
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I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.Sean McDermott
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I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.Yuta Watanabe
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Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.John Madden
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I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.Kurt Sutter
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When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.Thiago Alcantara
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Before Wenger came, Arsenal celebrated 1-0 and were based on defensive solidity. With Arsene, joy came from attacking, with players of good standing. And the perfect combination was the Invincibles. But over time, only technical quality and offensive freedom were taken care of, losing the defensive structure.Unai Emery
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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.Stephen Covey
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I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.Jerry West
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One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don't get punched first. It's the same on defense: You've got to hit first. Do your work early. That's what I was always taught. If you don't do your work early, you're done.Draymond Green
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I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.Jose Mourinho
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I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.Andrew Luck
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.Francis Parkman
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Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.Noam Chomsky
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No guy on the basketball court is a threat to score with LeBron James out there. Not only will LeBron dominate from the offensive end as well, but he's also doing it on the defensive end, which really makes him the complete package.Scottie Pippen
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Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.Paolo Maldini
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.Benjamin Tucker
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Coach Wilks really embraces that growth mindset and trying to learn and grow every day so he's a good fundamental teacher. He understands the passing game which is important when you coach as a defensive coordinator and also as a secondary coach like he has, so he's one of the top-notch coaches in our business.Sean McDermott
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One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.Baron Corbin
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Once I got to college, I didn't know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.Kyle Kuzma
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Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.Nemanja Matic
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If it's scoring, if it's a rebound, if it's on the defensive end, I just try to do it to help the team.Dennis Schroder
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Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'Caroline Knapp
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Chiellini, Bonucci, they were like defensive masters. They knew exactly what to do in certain moments, they knew how to defend in the box, how to defend outside the box. They're so smart, so clever.Matthijs de Ligt
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Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.David D. Burns
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On a tactical level the defensive midfielder in a 4-3-3 formation is just about the most demanding position there is.Sergio Busquets
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Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.Michael Ballack
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.Benjamin Tucker
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Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.Norman Schwarzkopf
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You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.Jerry West
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If you're a good defensive player, you should know it's one of four or five plays coming at you, based on formation and whatnot, situation.Jason Kelce
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Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 - basically, I was always attacking. I didn't have to do much defensive work; I didn't play as the No. 6 or the No. 8.Georginio Wijnaldum
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.Edmund White
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Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.Frank Rijkaard
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I've never been in this position where I've had to take an 'X' amount of shots, where I've had to focus on scoring. All of my career has been being a defensive player just running the floor.Jeff Green
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It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.Roman Reigns
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.Gene Tunney
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You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.Booger McFarland
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Taserface is loud. Taserface is the defensive lineman on your high school football team. He's a very loud individual who enjoys pushing people around.Chris Sullivan
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When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.Christopher Voss
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