Quotes About Boundaries

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

As for the family home, Tom dropped into the house on Seventeenth almost every day, walking in unannounced as if he still lived there. Even Debby told him she didn't think that was fair to Kay. "I wouldn't blame her for changing the locks," she said. "I own that house," Tom answered. "I can go there anytime I want.

The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We've always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.