Saying No Quotes - Page 2

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.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

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

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

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.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

I remember saying to someone when I got one of those ‘don’t do it’ [comments] – I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, ‘No, it’s going happen. It’s going to happen. I’m just letting you know.’

Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

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

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.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.