Quotes About Assertiveness

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All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself.

She went up on tiptoes, just so she could look down on him.

What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? "Lift weights or learn karate," said O'Grady.

Your biggest competitive advantage is that you don't want to fuck me.

Jamie Mai was tall and strikingly handsome and so, almost by definition, had the air of a man in charge—until he opened his mouth and betrayed his lack of confidence in everything from tomorrow's sunrise to the future of the human race.

Who cares what other people think?" says Alexander. "It's not their team.")

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He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

The Cleese Theory of Convenience. I think, roughly précised, it means that everyone will do only what's most convenient for them – and if you want things done your way you must not appear too agreeable or easy to please, or you will be the victim of other people's desire for convenience.

I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I politely refuse to be part of movies where I have to do sister or sister-in-law to protagonists.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

I've gotten myself into some difficult situations because I couldn't say no.

I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

I've got that ruthlessness inside me. All good captains have to be able to say things like that - with good man-management skills.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don't feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don't really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don't care.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.