“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
Cecil Beaton
“The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.”
Mark Twain
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“Identify what the issues are and decide whether you can salvage the relationship. If the answer is no, be assertive and tell it like it is. If you need to break that relationship, subtlety doesn't work. You don't have to be unkind, but just explain that it isn't working for you.”
Gladeana McMahon
“As soon as you stop being yourself you become anybody.”
Jeffrey Benjamin
“She's making a real case for being the starting point guard, ... She makes shots and she makes plays. She's assertive. Part of being a really good player is acting like one. She acts like a real good player. She walks around and talks and acts and carries herself like, `I'm really good.'”
Geno Auriemma
“We didn't establish ourselves the second half. They came out and got two three-point plays. They asserted themselves and we didn't.”
Mark Nore
