Quotes About Assertiveness

Good women are the scariest varmints of all.

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.

If you don't choose yourself, someone else will and the result won't be pleasant.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

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

Say what you want and why. Negotiation equals authenticity.

Often people want answers right now! When they tell you to jump, they want you to ask, "How high?" But you have the right to think things over. The right to delay. The right to say, "Okay, give me some time to see how I feel about it." The right to get to know the people who enter your life in either business or relationships and see if they are the right fit.

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.

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Nobody wants to feel powerless. If the negotiation is not going your way you can say to them, 'Sounds like there's nothing you can do.' "This will make them feel powerless. They will say 'no' to that and now they will try to do something for you to prove they are not powerless.

If you look helpless, people react to you in one way and if you look strong, or just come on strong, people react to you in another way, and, since you don't see what they see, this can be very painful.

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.

you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

The secret to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking impression. Make them think you're the hottest shit in the world. Make them think they're gonna lose their job if they don't give you one. Look 'em in the eye, and never look away. Be confident and calm, be fucking bold. That sounds more like the secret to kicking ass in life. It is, but I was gonna wait and tell you that some other time.

After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them.

Look, I can't dim my shine just because some people feel uncomfortable.

I like someone who has a strong personality, who speaks boldly and makes people uncomfortable sometimes.

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with.

Creating boundaries for yourself is healthy. A lot of panic attacks, in my experience, can be stopped by actually saying to somebody, 'Sorry I can't actually do this because I feel uncomfortable.'

I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold.

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.