Quotes About Assertiveness

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

But I mean, I'm a confident kid. I want to be a kid that kind of drives the bus, doesn't just be a passenger.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.

Get your coat and ditch the damn sunglasses, I've told you before, you're not Bono.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attention, 'I am about as sexually active as a bag of spinach, and if you want to keep me on the porch and not out in the park somewhere behind the bushes, you'll keep the stupid porch light off when I come home with a boy.

Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

I try and be super vocal on the field because that's what we need, and that's what I want to do.

My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.

I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.

If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!

I feel like I've always believed what I believed. I've just become more vocal about it.

I'm someone who has always believed in being extremely vocal about my thoughts, and I'm definitely not someone who's afraid to speak her mind.

I'm going to be a more vocal leader.

In 1986, I returned to London as editor in chief of 'British Vogue.' Although I still thought of myself as totally English, to my surprise, everyone here thought I was some sort of American control freak.