Permission Quotes - Page 6

• Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Motivational, Tests, Asks

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Blow, Who I Am, Color

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Giving, Forever

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• We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Following Instructions, Needs

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• When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Hurt, People

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• Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death.  We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours.  Only once, must we be born without our own consent.  Only once, must we die without our own permission

  Calvin Miller

  Opposites, Dying, Thrill

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• You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Adventure, Waiting, Life Is

  "I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography". Interview with Alain Sayag in Robert Rauschenberg "Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs", September 12, 1981.

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• If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

  Jet Li

  Giving, Training, Quitting

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• A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Virginia, Law

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• Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

  Greg McKeown

  Giving, Trying, Saying Yes

  Greg McKeown (2014). “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”, p.4, Random House

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• Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certainly a lot of them sexual, than ever I've experienced. But in a sense, what you do with an alter ego, you give them all sorts of permissions and licences which you know you'll never be able to embrace in your real life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• I give permission
  for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

  Douglas Crockford

  Evil, Giving, Use

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• Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.

  Marshall Field

  Hurt, Errors, Please Me

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• Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

  Warren Jeffs

  Children, Husband, Men

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• I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

  Kim Kardashian

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

  James Nicoll

  Earth, May, Asteroids

  Usenet article, 2000.

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• If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Slave, Granted

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.228, Penguin

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• Give other Christians permission to be different from you. You're not the only Christ-follower in the world, and neither are you the most committed. Your way of loving Jesus is neither the only way for the best. If you don't know that, your Christian world is way too small.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.101, Revell

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• Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Needs, Pursue

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• Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Reality, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 01, 2015

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• People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

  Christopher Locke

  Real, People, Stories

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• Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, 'Include me'. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like.

  Stuart Wilde

  Motivational, Waiting, Energy

  Stuart Wilde (1988). “Affirmations”

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• Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Feelings, Events

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• Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

  Amy Poehler

  Life, Mean, Waiting

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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