Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

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.'

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1953

Topics

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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

John Hughes

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I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

Michael J. Willett

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I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.

Tommy Wiseau

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I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.

Tom Perez

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I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

Mary Ellen Mark

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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Javier Bardem

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I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Deepak Chopra

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There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.

Prabal Gurung

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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Timothy Noah

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