Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice.
It's dangerous to assert oneself.
Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look ...
Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble s...
I need to learn to be more assertive.
Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
Never argue; repeat your assertion.
The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking...
and, if anything, are more likely to respond assertively. (1999:106) In
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
To assert dignity is to lose it.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
