Asking Permission Quotes

• 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.

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  Jung Chang

  Mother   Father   Party  

  1881

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

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  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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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

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  Arsene Wenger

  Football   Nice   Thinking  

  2903

• Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

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  Amy Vanderbilt

  Asking Permission   Might   Annoying  

  Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”

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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.

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  Sam Levenson

  Children   Mean   Doctors  

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• No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

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  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic   Men   Asking Permission  

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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  Grace Hopper

  Forgiveness   Peace   Apology  

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• It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

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  Kate Brian

  Asking Permission   Asking For Forgiveness   Easier  

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