Quotes About Boundaries

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility and guilt.

No" is a complete sentence.

Good fences make good neighbors," wrote poet Robert Frost; likewise, good walls make good collaborators.

Shame-bound people honor their thoughts more than their instincts, especially the internal voices that constantly tell them how worthless and inferior they are. Spontaneity is limited by internal scrutiny, which binds and disempowers the will.

We teach others how to treat us.

If someone wants to know your business, tell them to invest in it.

There's a thin line between talking to yourself and arguing with an idiot.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I have drawn a clear line between my personal and professional life.

I draw a line between my personal and professional life.

I have never let my personal life and choices interfere with my professional life.

I have never let the personal life affect my professional life.

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

I believe that your personal life does not have anything to do with your professional life.

I have always maintained that my personal and professional life is completely apart.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.