Quotes About Assertion

Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.

The truth is always the best approach when saying no. Keep it simple. People don't need to hear your sob story. A five-minute exposition about your busy life, your demanding mother, or your clinging children isn't the most effective approach. That may be the truth, but you've given too much information, and your listener tuned out four minutes ago.

Childish and immaterial as the topic was, the quality of their reasoning was still more childish and immaterial. In truth, there was very little reasoning or none at all. Their method was one of assertion, assumption, and denunciation

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.

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

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

Sometimes you have to spoon feed filmmakers to let them know 'I am capable of this.'

I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.

AAP's Punjab Convener is not a rubber stamp.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

I don't view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we're not shy. We'll stand up, speak out - even when our voice shakes.