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Quotes About Permission

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Part of self-care is allowing yourself the permission to have those moments and to enjoy them. You are encouraged to pause and acknowledge the moment, whether it is good or bad. That moment of acknowledgment reinforces the idea that you are worth the time. It also validates your feelings, which can reduce overall stress.
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock
There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.
~ Richard Thaler
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
~ Sol LeWitt
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
~ A. B. Yehoshua
Our highest insights must – and should – sound like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Having a talent is not enough; one also requires your permission for it--right, my friends?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is legal because I wish it.
~ Louis XIV
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
~ Al Yankovic
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
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
~ James Gleick
I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission.
~ Kevin Mitnick
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.
~ Roger B. Taney
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
~ Matt Taibbi
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
~ Tom Hayden
In 1970, Danvers town historian Richard B. Trask asked the property owners, Alfred and Edie Anne Hutchinson, for permission to do an archaeological dig there.
~ Rosemary Ellen Guiley
The irony was not lost on her that, because she was Stalin's daughter—"state property," as she bitterly called herself—she had been refused permission to accompany Singh to India while he was alive but had been granted a visa to carry his ashes back to his country after he was dead.
~ Rosemary Sullivan
You stand outside the circle and wonder why you feel left out, unaware that you need your own permission to join the others-not theirs.
~ Rusty Berkus
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
~ James Taylor
Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.
~ Khurram Murad
I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
~ Sally Ride
Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway.
~ Anne Fadiman