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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 where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Men, Light

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• Aprende a decir que no en situaciones en las que decir que no puede ser difícil, en las que podría significar ser despedido. Di que no de todos modos, porque podría llevarte a mayores oportunidades.

  Samuel Dash

  Mean, Opportunity, Difficult

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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 it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Trying, Wonderful

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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 the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Giving, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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• I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Watches, Phases

  Entrevista con Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. 19 de noviembre de 2013.

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• I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, People, Saying Yes

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• Nunca ha sido esencial para la historia que me quite la ropa. Siempre he tenido cláusulas en mis contratos que prohíben los desnudos y los dobles... Admiro a las actrices que pueden hacerlo sin sentirse explotadas. Siempre que sea por voluntad propia, me parece estupendo. No es un juicio moral, simplemente nunca me he sentido cómoda haciéndolo, soy demasiado modesta.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Sucio, Pensamiento, Juicio Moral

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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 until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Done, Pieces

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Decir "no" o incluso "basta" es el sello distintivo del profesional que quieres en tu equipo.

  Seth Godin

  Team, Want, Hallmark

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• I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Children, Believe, Gay

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993). “Tendencies”, p.2, Duke University Press

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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. We can be human only together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Military, People

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.

  Selena Gómez

  Being Yourself, Mean, People

  "Selena Gomez habla de RUDDERLESS, simpatiza con el personaje, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, hacia dónde se dirige su carrera y más". Entrevista con Christina Radish, collider.com. 18 de octubre de 2014.

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• Passion means making the choice to do that for which we can make the greatest difference. It means saying no to opportunities that may be good but not the best. It means that the best path is not always the easiest path.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Passion, Mean, Opportunity

  Thom S. Rainer (2010). “Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap”, p.197, Harper Collins

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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 about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

  Michael Azerrad

  Giving, Rolling, Dollars

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• Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

  Kevin Ashton

  Ideas, Creative, Talent

  Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.67, Random House

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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 around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.

  Lena Dunham

  Sleep, Night, Hands

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.26, Random House

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• Durante un tiempo, dije "no" con demasiada frecuencia. Rechacé "Un oficial y un caballero", "Splash" y "El expreso de medianoche". Podría nombrar muchas más. Me iba a experimentar la vida en vez de trabajar: aprendí a pilotar aviones, fui a un safari africano, navegué por el Caribe... lo cual no era necesariamente malo.

  John Travolta

  Nombres, Caballero, Medianoche

  Entrevista en Parade, parade.com. 4 de diciembre de 2007.

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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 risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

  H. David Burton

  Running, Children, Honesty

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• Para la mayoría de nosotros, la prueba clásica de la fuerza de voluntad es resistir la tentación, ya sea un donut, un cigarrillo, una liquidación o una aventura de una noche. Cuando la gente dice: "No tengo fuerza de voluntad", lo que suele querer decir es: "Me cuesta decir no cuando mi boca, estómago, corazón o (rellene su parte anatómica) quiere decir sí".

  Kelly McGonigal

  Corazón, Media, Noche

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It", p.14, Penguin.

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• Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Oscuridad, Hombres, Raza

  "Bhawani Mandir (1905)". "India's Rebirth : A Selection from Sri Aurobindo's Writings, Talks and Speeches", 3rd edition. Book by Sri Aurobindo, 2000.

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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? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.

  Laurie Anderson

  Book, Yes You Can, Ideas

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• No puede haber arte sin riesgo. Es como decir No al sexo y luego esperar que haya niños.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Sex, Children

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• The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

  Linda Sánchez

  Nfl, Smoking, Links

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• Oh, see then, the Simi is not in trouble. I just kill the Greek god and all’s fine. (Simi) You can’t kill a Greek god, Simi. It’s not allowed. (Acheron) There you go again, akri, saying no to the Simi. Don’t eat that, Simi. Don’t kill that, Simi. Stay here, Simi. Go to Katoteros, Simi, and wait for me to call you. I don’t like being told no, akri. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Waiting, Greek, Trouble

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.337, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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