Permission Quotes - Page 4

• I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Shining, Waiting, World

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• When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

  Janet Echelman

  Ideas, Limits, Compromise

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission all over the Internet and even in print and make a lot of money doing so, but half naked photos that I took of myself are deemed "obscene."

  Marie Calloway

  Men, Thinking, Naked

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Mean, Doctors

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• When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

  Laura Linney

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Looks, Facts, Privilege

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• Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Giving, Way

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• The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms &  clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Nice, Dark, Giving

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• The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Firsts, Privilege

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• Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Chance, Ifs

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• NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

  Michelle J. Howard

  Writing, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

  John Updike

  Music, Giving

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• Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.

  Graham Cooke

  Dream, Vision, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 09, 2012

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• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.

  Cameron Mathison

  Children, Moving, Parks

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• No one can insult you without your permission.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Insults You, Insult

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• Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

  Jon Foreman

  Skins, Music Is

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

  Bob Kerrey

  Thinking, Winning, Order

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• Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Evil, World

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 348), 1974.

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• Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

  Tom Tancredo

  Immigration, United States, World

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Copyright, Copies, Has Beens

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• Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

  James K. A. Smith

  Giving, Creative, Sometimes

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• . . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.

  Laurie Anderson

  Book, Yes You Can, Ideas

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Regret, Light, Giving

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