Saying No Quotes - Page 8

• Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Goal, Focus

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 22, 2012

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• You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Gay, Two, Milk

  "The eight exchanges you should read from today’s gay marriage arguments". Supreme Court oral arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act, www.washingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

  Mila Kunis

  Crazy, Opportunity, Matter

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• A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

  Sandra Oh

  White, People, Casting

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• It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

  William Goldman

  Flames, Squad, Giants

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

  Faye Wattleton

  Sex, Teenage, Nice

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn't, "Oh I have something to hide. I don't want you to look," it's more saying, "No thank you. I prefer you not look. I'm not giving you permission."

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Giving, Tape

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

  Donald Trump

  Enemy, Boots, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• Let me tell you what's really delicious about this [Donald] Trump announcement they're not gonna prosecute. They're also saying something else. They're saying, "No, we're gonna help [Hillary Clinton] heal."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Helping, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Believe, One Day, Next

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• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Military, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Pain, Ignorance, Compassion

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• You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

  Sam Altman

  Effort, Seven, Conscious

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• The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

  Vera Brittain

  Book, Party, People

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• What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

  Paul Schneider

  Mistake, Stupid, Tools

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Liars, Humor

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• I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite right for it. And I didn't want a bad film to be made of the book, either a sentimental one or a creepy one, so I did a lot of, "No thank you." Then when the right filmmaker came along, yes, I suppose I presented myself very much as wanting to be the writer.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Thinking, People

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

  Bruce Beresford

  People, Kitchen, Trying

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• My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

  Sean Astin

  Buddhist, Dad, Catholic

  Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

  Richard Branson

  Phones, People, Cameras

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Pain, Distance

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• We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

  Mitt Romney

  Right Thing To Say, Corners, Right Thing

  "This Week" with Terry Moran, abcnews.go.com. February 21, 2010.

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