A Quote by Clifford Stoll

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

Clifford Stoll

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Clifford Stoll
American - Author
Born: June 4, 1950

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Grace Hopper

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

Kerry Stokes

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

Grace Hopper

It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.

Zig Ziglar

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

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Emily Giffin

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

Aesop

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Erica Jong

You apologize for losing in the playoffs, but you don't apologize for getting in.

Ron Rivera

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Alex Faickney Osborn

I know I'm getting something out of it (counseling), Pat is getting something, even my daughter is getting something out of it. We don't like coming, but it is really helping, and it gives us some place to go together.

Jack P. Shepherd

If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.