Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

The young child needs not only gratification; he needs also to learn the limitations that the physical world puts upon his gratifications

Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

I struggle with control.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.