Quotes About Boundaries

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.

I'm the type of person that cannot survive if I have a lack of sleep. I just turn into an angry monster so I have to be pretty consistent about getting a good night's rest and, you know, even if that means saying no to a dinner date or going out somewhere.

You can't go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It's unseemly.

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.

I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.

I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to exercise aidos, "shame," and sophrosyne, "soundness of mind," to keep women from transgressing the bounds of propriety.

If someone doesn't ask, you don't have a moral obligation to say every thought that pops in your head.

This is one of the pitfalls of being nice: You end up overexerting yourself. That's why one of the most important things to learn after you master good behavior is how to say no gracefully. It's ultimately better for everyone, because you don't burn out and wind up in a mental institution, making you no good to anyone at all.

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to perform miracles of the imagination. To extend the boundaries of the mysterious. To push into the unknown in pursuit of still other unknowns. To reach into one's heart, down into that place where the stories are, bringing up the mystery of oneself.

sometimes, you had to let people go for your own sanity, especially when they got so comfortable, they failed to appreciate your worth.