Ewan doesn't always mean oo, sometimes it is a decision…

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.

— Lawrence Fagg

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied…

— Adnan Sami

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

— Tom Hanks

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

— Edgar Ramirez

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

— E. Stanley Jones

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“When the world says “no” it means a “yes”.”

— Sumedha Mahajan

“Just remember that every “yes” is actually a “no” to something else.”

— Hank Reardon

a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at…

— Margery Wilson

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You don't have to say yes to everything, you know. It's okay to say no.”

— Janet Gurtler

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

— Asha Rangappa

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we…

— William Glasser

“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not…

— André Aciman