Quotes About Asking Permission

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

Amy Vanderbilt

#2. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#3. A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

Richard Preston

#4. 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

#5. Between asking permission and begging forgiveness, I lean toward the latter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. You have wings and courage and a brain. Do not annoy me by asking permission." Lily 500 in The Bees

Laline Paull

#7. At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,

Joey W. Hill

#8. 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

#9. If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Stop asking permission. You don't need it. Stop waiting to be chosen. Choose yourself.

Joanna Penn

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

Seth Godin

#12. Indeed, could any sincere, honest observer foresee a time in this world when an organism's success might in fact be dependent on its politeness in asking permission to consume another organism?

John Zande

#13. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#14. Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, you ought to go and do it. It is no use waiting till people tell you that you may go. Asking permission is a coward's way of shifting responsibility on to some one else.

Winifred Holtby

#15. Can you train yourself to love the right man? Of course you can. The problem is forgetting about the wrong man, the one passing by who came in a door that was left open without asking permission.

Paulo Coelho

#16. How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.

Lorrie Moore

#17. The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Thomas Piketty

#18. No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

William O. Douglas

#19. I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Francis Ford Coppola

#20. Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

Drake

#21. Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.

Milan Kundera

#22. You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission.

Steve Maraboli

#23. You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Banksy

#24. I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

Nancy Roman

#25. Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

Lars Ulrich

#26. I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

S.A. Tawks

#27. Don't you dare try to die again without asking my permission!

Shungiku Nakamura

#28. If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.

Anonymous

#29. Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy - all were stumbling blocks to truthfulness between producer-consumers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all
being able to work without asking anybody's permission.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#31. Just by asking for your one next step you can give yourself permission to be divinely led to the people, places and resources that will allow you to move forward.

Catherine Carrigan

#32. Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

Rita Zahara

#33. But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Hermann Hesse

#34. If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.

Mike Zimmer

#35. Some people live life asking for forgiveness instead of permission.

Alecia Whitaker

#36. 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

#37. Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Rita Dove

#38. Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one."
"In your dreams, bat boy.

Katie MacAlister

#39. Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Amanda Hocking

#40. Now that I have confirmed that the Vikings have been seeking to trade me, I have asked for permission to speak to the interested teams. The Vikings have denied my request. If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible.

Daunte Culpepper

#41. Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Amy Jo Martin

#42. She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Scott Westerfeld

#43. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage