Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.