A Quote by Jon Stewart

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

Jon Stewart

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Jon Stewart
American - Entertainer
Born: November 28, 1962

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Henry Cloud

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

Stephen Covey

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

John Harbaugh

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.

Philip Baker Hall

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

I just try to keep the main thing the main thing: getting my butt in the gym.

Michael Chandler

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Jean King

Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness.

Beau Biden

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

Vincent Price

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

Reiss Nelson

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.

Brad Thor

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.

Dana Gould

I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.