Boundary Maintenance Quotes

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

I'm really good at telling people 'no.'

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

My wife knows that interacting with actresses is all part of the job, but there is a line which I'm not supposed to cross, and as long as I don't cross it, there are no problems. She doesn't bother with whatever I do onscreen. But the line is always there!

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph.

I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.

A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.

To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

I have had to learn about saying no.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

Do not allow things to intrude from outside.