If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
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.
Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.
In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse
I have been accused of never saying no.
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.
Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.
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.
No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing. "
When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.
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
Focusing is all about saying no
When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H. W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.
I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this. " Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.