Saying No Quotes - Page 7

• When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

  Ry Russo-Young

  Saying Yes, Way, Young

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Rights, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."

  Vandana Shiva

  Fun, Creativity, Mean

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

  George Saunders

  Maturity, Triumph, Denial

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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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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• 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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• Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

  Doc Childre

  Anger, Mean, Emotional

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• I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way, but that's what's systemic about it, right, like that people don't quite realize that maybe they're attracted to a male op-ed more than a female op-ed, or because of networking they know this person from going out to a bar with them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what's mine and what's other people's is controlled by me. It isn't even fair to talk about.

  Paul Reubens

  People, Rooms, Proportion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

  Pedro Winter

  Kings, People, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.

  Robert Thurman

  Karma, Taken, Buddhism

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

  Brené Brown

  Practice, Trying, Care

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hopeless, Should, Cases

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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