logo

Quotes About Boundaries

A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.
~ John Sandford
Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don't want anyone else in it. I don't want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It's my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic.
~ John Scalzi
Until then, get the fuck out of my office." "I enjoy watching you work," Fundapellonan said, after Heuvel got the fuck out of Kiva's office.
~ John Scalzi
As the Big Shift takes hold, companies are no longer places that exist to drive down costs by getting increasingly bigger. They're places that support and organize talented individuals to get better faster by working with others. The rationale of the firm shifts from scalable efficiency to scalable learning—the ability to improve performance more rapidly and learn faster by effectively integrating more and more participants distributed across traditional institutional boundaries.
~ John Seely Brown
Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.
~ John Shirley
It was largely a land without Borders - something that attracted him and disturbed him both. The land didn't need laws. But the people did.
~ John Shirley
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
~ John Steinbeck
You keep out of my bed," said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses—the whole world over his fence.
~ John Steinbeck
It is crucial to realize that your ability to form strong and loving bonds can betray you if you do not intentionally pace a new relationship.
~ Unknown
It is imperative that you understand your own personality and emotional state at the time you enter into a new relationship.
~ Unknown
Resolving your emotional necessities is the first step to avoiding a marriage to a jerk. It is also an indispensable step to avoid becoming the jerk in your marriage
~ Unknown
no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.
~ Unknown
I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.
~ John Waters
The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and
~ John Wooden
I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.
~ Meek Mill
This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
~ Gabrielle Union
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
~ Lisa Yuskavage
Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.
~ David Levithan
I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.
~ Tyler Oakley
With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.
~ Sakya Pandita
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
~ Anne Lamott
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
~ Elizabeth Fishel