Top 1200 Asking Permission Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.

Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the 'angry black girl.' But if I don't say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.

You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

I`m asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.

I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.

For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something on Mission Impossible.' And you ask the question, and it's just a polite, 'I'm not going to tell you.' Then, every so often, they'd go, 'Well, can't you just tell us a little bit?' I have to say, 'You know what guys, I'm under contract and I'm not going to tell you anything.' So you keep asking the questions and I'm just going to keep smiling. And it's hard, cause I don't want to seem rude, but it's part of my job just like it's part of their job to keep a secret.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.

What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

Bitcoin offers one service: securely time-stamped, scripted transactions. Everything else is built on the edge-devices as an application. Bitcoin allows any application to be developed independently, without permission, on the edge of the network.

Every closet needs one comfortable stretchy pair of jeans, but I think the reason we have permission to do what we do is because that's already happened. Jeggings all look the same, but when you buy jeans from us, we make sure every pair has individuality.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

As a non believer I don't get the idea of asking god for things via prayer.

Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.

We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

I don't think it is very polite and respectful asking someone out during an interview.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."

People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.