Saying No Quotes - Page 6

• I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Children, Believe, Gay

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993). “Tendencies”, p.2, Duke University Press

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• We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Agreement, Way, Restaurants

  "CNN Newsnight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. October 15, 2004.

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• Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hopeless, Should, Cases

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• Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality.  Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blood, Vitality, Red

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.63, Frog Books

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• Saying no is so heartbreaking.

  Britney Spears

  Heartbreaking

  The X Factor, season 2, 2012.

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• Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

  Michael Porter

  Mean, Choices, Kind

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• The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Editors, Quality

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• If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

  John Van de Kamp

  Humor, Past, Alcohol

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• Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

  Eda LeShan

  Regret, Real, Saying Yes

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• When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Life Changing, Writing

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• 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.

  John Kasich

  Easier, Bother

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.msnbc.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.

  Jimmy Carter

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Cake, Ideas

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

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• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Agency, Agents

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Philosophical, Talking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

  Drew Barrymore

  Breakup, Thinking, Trying

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

  Marshall Sylver

  Inspirational, Moving, Saying Yes

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Two, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

  Busy Philipps

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

  Kevin Rose

  Angel, Keys, Investing

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• People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, People, Afraid Of Failure

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2016

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• God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Trying, Firsts

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.126, SPCK

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• I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.

  Jeremy Renner

  Jobs, Hard Times, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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