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  • Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

    Mean   Focus   Saying Yes  
    "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.
  • The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

    Data   Editors   Quality  
  • 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 you to greater opportunities.

  • One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes." I'm the oldest of four, a people-pleaser - that's the good girl straitjacket that I wear sometimes. I spent a lot of my life saying yes all the time and then being pissed off and resentful.

    Girl   Mean   People  
    "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.
  • You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

    Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  • I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

    People   Feelings   World  
  • It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

    Life   Best Job   Track  
    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan
  • When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 30, 2011
  • For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

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

    "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.
  • 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.

    Art   Trying   Saying No  
  • There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

    FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Jul 16, 2013
  • . . . 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.

  • In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

  • Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

    "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.
  • Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.

    Education   Teacher   Art  
    W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Vision in Elementary Mathematics”, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.msnbc.com. May 15, 2015.
  • "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

    Choices   Abuse   Trying  
    Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
  • We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.

    Order   Ideas   Numbers  
    "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.
  • 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.

  • The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.

    Karma   Taken   Buddhism  
    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

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

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

    Enemy   Boots   Saying No  
    Source: time.com
  • In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

    Mean   Long   Design  
    "Built to Last". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.
  • We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

  • 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. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

    Jobs   World   Singers  
  • 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.

    Mean   Cutting   Thinking  
  • Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

    Self   Denial   Way  
    Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
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