Permission Quotes - Page 15

• Love rarely waits for permission.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting

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• Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

  Seth Godin

  Change, Asking Permission, Asking For Forgiveness

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.70, Penguin

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• Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

  Amanda Hocking

  Cutting, Asking

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• Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

  Dennis Prager

  Long, Firsts, Compromise

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Memories, Fall

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• I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Inspiration, Fighting

  "The Last Lecture".

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• Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Giving, Mad

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.194, Macmillan

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• If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

  Libba Bray

  Short Life, Easier, Plans

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• The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Hair, Black, Firsts

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.47, Del Rey

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• You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

  Marianne Williamson

  Insecure, Light, Giving

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• It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Exciting, Knows

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.444, Penguin

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• Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to abandon a half-finished work because you can't make it perfect. I hereby give you permission to write things that aren't perfect, make mistakes, try things that don't work, experiment with styles you're not used to and generally throw words around. You'll learn much faster that way.

  Frances Hardinge

  Mistake, Writing, Giving

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• Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

  Jay Baer

  Giving, Marketing, Stories

  "Youtility author Jay Baer on Why Smart Marketing is all About Help Not Hype". Interview with Arnie Kuenn, www.verticalmeasures.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

  Jerry Falwell

  Hate, Home, Men

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• Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Sorry, Father, Government

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• Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.

  Dorothy Morrison

  Practice, Breathing, Magic

  Dorothy Morrison (2012). “Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Atmosphere, Would Be

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

  Melody Beattie

  Love, Appreciation, Healing

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• Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

  Eve Ensler

  Appreciation, Giving, Waiting

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2004.

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• One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Way, Consumers

  Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Interruptions

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• Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Waiting, Doe

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• When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

  Lawrence Block

  Morning, Writing, Giving

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