Refusing to focus on your past disappointments creates a great opportunity for you to give an undivided attention to your present.
Positive results are always inevitable when you refuse to live a life of fears, doubts, excuses, blames and procrastinations.
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
Beware of those who would pay you lip service but refuse to put their money where their mouths are.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
Vito Corleone: I make him an offer he don' refuse. Don' worry.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
