Non-defensiveness Quotes

I don't have to prove anything.

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

I never think I have to prove something.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

I never heard Coen brothers get defensive, ever. You get with these filmmakers doing the hardest work in the world, and they're not defensive. They're happy together, they crack jokes together, they have different opinions - and it doesn't bother them that they have different opinions. So no wonder their work is so good, because you're getting two for the price of one.

People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.