Best 126 quotes in «aggressive quotes» category

Two aggressive female astronomy managers would take me into numerous surprise closed door meetings and jointly attempt to harass me out of my job. It was the worst experience that I have ever had in the workplace.

Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!

When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they’ll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.

When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I was aware of long term summit workers that were showing signs of irritability and aggressive behaviors. Similar problems began to show up in me a few years after I started working there.

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.

Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. It needs to generate a kneejerk reaction.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

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

I feel like I fight an aggressive style - smart / aggressive.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going to know how I feel. I just put it out there.

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili pursued a rather aggressive stance, which stood in the way of its NATO membership. Given both states' unique relationships with Russia, concerns were justified that NATO membership would trigger Russia's reasonable fears of encirclement.

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

I took it upon myself to be more aggressive. I wanted the ball. Coach gave me the ball and I just tried to attack (and) make plays, just take it to the rim and see what happens.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.