A Quote by Grace Hopper

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

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Grace Hopper
American - Scientist
December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

Ingrid Weir

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

Grace Hopper

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It's good to have an idea about what you want to do with your life before just doing things. If you have goals and dreams, it doesn't really matter if you achieve them, but if you have them it's much easier to not get lost. It's easier to make decisions.

Tove Styrke

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Peter Hessler

If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.

Ivar Giaever

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.

Carl Holmes

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Anne Burrell

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

Grace Hopper

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

Benmont Tench

No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

David Maister

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.

Tony Kushner

Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.