Quotes About Boundaries

When you say yes to something you don't want to do, here is the result: you hate what you are doing, you resent the person who asked you, and you hurt yourself.

Wake up early. Avoid distractions. Work three to five hours a day and then enjoy the rest of the day. Be as perfectionist as you can, knowing that imperfection will still rule. Have the confidence to be magical and stretch the boundaries of your medium. Combine the tools of the medium itself with the message you want to convey. Don't get stuck in the same rut—move forward, experiment, but with the confidence built up over experience. Change the rules but learn them first.

Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not.

This applies not just to customers but everyone in your life. Everyone. If someone no longer has your best interest at heart, then in your own self-interest you need to back off. Now.

If the wants, needs, and prejudices of others, even those you love, take up too much mental real estate in your brain, then you have no room left over to actually be the person you were meant to be—the person who actually has the potential to help others.

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not. Because if we let the wrong people in, we will be drained, and if we are drained, how can we expect to have abundance or creativity?

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you.

You can't get good at something if you are working twenty hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at one thing.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you. You can trust that the way you are is fine, that your honesty is what attracts others to you, and that your truth is what lights your internal fire.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.

You can't get good at something if you are working 20 hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at ONE thing.

You decide whom you say NO to. You are entitled to choose your tribe, regardless of what society imposes on you. You decide who in your life drains you of energy, and then purge them so you can soar. This does not mean you become a hermit; it means you choose your family, your friends, your colleagues, your tribe, your life.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

I barbari non sono in sostanza una categoria culturale ma politica, che designa una popolazione non (ancora?) amministrata dallo stato. I barbari cominciano dove finiscono le tasse e i cereali.

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

It is not wise to notice another man's woman.

Never go to bed with a woman who has more troubles than you do. —Lew Archer

It was sometimes said that the only difference between Omaha and the North Pole was all the barbed wire.

Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.

I have my sister, my uncle, and that's it. I don't talk to my mother, I don't talk to my father.