(Tom's modesty is a form of egoism. It is as if he were saying, "See how self-deprecating I can be and still be self-assertive").
In his new book Everything is Connected (subtitled The Power of Music), Barenboim considers how 'when one plays five legato notes... each note cannot be self-assertive, wanting to be louder than the notes preceding it; if it did, it would defy the nature of the phrase to which it belongs'.
Not all human beings are capable of communicating well with others, being self-assertive, or asking for help in a timely manner.
Items with sufficient factor loadings on the first component only constituted an index called 'Submissiveness', consisting of items such as 'It is hard for me to be self-assertive'It'is is hard for me to set limits' and 'It is hard for me to show anger'.
(DJN VII.5.10) The former obtain, for instance, when (in a monarchy) rulership goes to someone unqualified for that role, and the latter when (in a democracy) citizens are too self-assertive and unwilling to compromise.
There was a conflict in her: she could be strenuously self-assertive, yet you felt that she was in truth chronically shy.
She was not a celebrity, but there seems no reason to think she could not have been another superstar had she been more self-assertive.
He's a self-assertive young man who truly wants to reach his lost friend, judgment be damned.
"There is an ambition to be independent and self-assertive, but without an overall strategy".
Unlike the world, his mentality can't be fixed, so a self-assertive rage is inappropriate.
That the act of being a free, attractive, self-assertive woman is punishable by torture and death?" In late 2013, Whedon spoke at an Equality Now event, where he issued a pointed dissection of the word "feminist".
