A Quote by Mark Batterson

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Mark Batterson

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Criticism Criticize Defense Defense Mechanism Like Mechanism Nine Others Ourselves Out Times

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Mark Batterson
American - Priest

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Peter Farrelly

Nine times out of 10 I'd like to bet on myself.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

Thubten Yeshe

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

Nhat Hanh

Nine times out of 10 the smarter or mentally focused fighter comes out on top.

Anthony Yarde

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Douglas Adams

Nine times out of 10, I'm trying to score if I do decide to run.

Lamar Jackson

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

Lamar Jackson

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.