Permission Quotes - Page 18

• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, People, United States

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Powerful, Real

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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• Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Burning, Investing, Progressive

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

  David Levithan

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Perfect, Remember, Sometimes

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• I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

  Tom Hayden

  Thinking, People, March

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• ..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

  Randy Alcorn

  Ideas, May, Want

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.296, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Giving, Trying, Failing

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• Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

  Walter Kirn

  Way, Honest, Accusing

  Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC

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• The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Validation, Needs

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Enough, My Friends

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• It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Apology, Apologizing, Easier

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

  Arthur W. Page

  Approval

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• My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

  Jung Chang

  Mother, Father, Party

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• Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

  Nina Turner

  Government, Needs, Care

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• Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Leaving, Tables

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• In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

  Nick Frost

  Weekend, Paris, Space

  "Fictional character: Mike Watt". "Spaced", www.imdb.com. 1999–2001.

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• Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

  Mark Twain

  Renaissance, Republic

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.240, Velvet Element Books

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• Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love Is, Soul, Feelings

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving, Fool, Failing

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1985). “Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life”, Tarcher

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• Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Names, Needs

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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