Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"People cannot hurt you without your permission."
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Permission
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Ava DuVernay
Film Director
"We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently."
Pope Leo X
Pope
"No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!"
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist, Entrepreneur
"Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness."
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"Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission."
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"Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions."
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"One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance."
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"What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade."
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"A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization."
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"Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you."
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"You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be"
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"Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later."
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"Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it."
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"No one can insult you without your permission."
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"I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too.""
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"Nothing happens to man without the permission of God."
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"Life, the permission to know death."
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"Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !"
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"You can't hurt me without my permission."
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"Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?"
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"Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?"
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