Quotes About Boundaries

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I wouldn't put myself in that bracket, but it's one of those things. I think what helps is that we [with Tom Hardey] don't socialize, we don't really know each other, we purely work together.

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance

Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

If you can work anywhere, anytime, then pretty soon you're working everywhere all the time.

No work is so important you have to do it.

Do not waste your life over working.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was "tense.

You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

The Parc des Volcans in Rwanda, where I conduct most of my studies, is heavily infested with poachers and herdsmen, whose cattle graze right through my camp area. Park boundaries have no meaning to these tribesmen.

For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.

Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I was like, 'Give me some stunts! Give me whatever you want. Throw it at me. I want to do it all.'