Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

Sometimes you have to say, 'I don't have to do everything that comes my way.'

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I have learned how to say no, and I have to check myself all the time. I'm not great at it still. Women get criticized a lot more for saying no than men do.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

What we say no to is sometimes more important than what we say yes to.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

We have to not be afraid to say no.

I have a very easy time saying no to friends.

I say 'no' a lot. And if I knew how easy it was to say no, I would have started saying it earlier.

As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.

I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.

Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.

I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.