Best Saying No Sayings
122 Saying No quotes by 103 unique authors
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with…
— Victor Hugo
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
— Seth Godin
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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate…
— Cynthia McKinney
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There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I have had to learn about saying no.
— Jaclyn Smith
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When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have…
— Milla Jovovich
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After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates -…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?…
— Laurie Anderson
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Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the…
— H. David Burton
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Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
— Tom Hanks
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Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we…
— Kevin Ashton
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I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me…
— Lena Dunham
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Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined...
— Kevin Ashton
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Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means…
— Gloria Steinem
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To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive.…
— Catherine O'Hara
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I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work…
— Connie Nielsen
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...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point…
— Criss Jami
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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested…
— Michael Azerrad
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Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world.…
— Jose Carreras
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I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying…
— Richard Chamberlain
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If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
— Jonah Goldberg
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I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would…
— Michael B. Jordan
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I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.
— Lorenzo di Bonaventura
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Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead…
— Samuel Dash
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