Boundary-testing Quotes

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

I don't know if this is advice, but I remember this guy in high school who came off like he'd been with a lot of women. He said, "Dude, what girls sometimes like is the unexpected." There were these girls who were always giving him tittie twisters, and he kept warning them, "I'm going to do it back." I'm thinking, There's no way. But sure enough, one girl crossed the line and he did.

Maybe I am uncompromising on track. The stewards judge whether I'm fair or not, it is my job to extract the most from the rules and circumstances. I admit sometimes I go over the limit but sometimes I don't and I get results.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go. Whether it's going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

I love to test boundaries.