Permission To Win Quotes & Sayings

Basically the French are all peasants. — Pablo Picasso

A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared. — Michael S. Horton

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. — Noam Chomsky

Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission. — T.F. Hodge

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done. — Bob Kerrey

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts. — Samuel Johnson

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. — John Stuart Mill

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. — Phil Knight

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other. — Kenneth Stafford Norris

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language. — Ilana Glazer

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth
that God knows nothing. — Graham Greene

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose. — Andrew Tobias

Why didn't you come see me yesterday?" I asked. — Renee Pawlish

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful. — Charles Ferguson

The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just ... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate ... and eventually, a Facebook emerges. — John Battelle

Though he never articulated it, I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him - that he was put on this earth to do something extraordinary with his special qualities, to "let the legend grow."
But those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus and stay calm under pressure, also included selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness, and cheapness.
When they were all at work in the competitive arena, they helped him win. And winning gave him permission to remain a flawed and in some ways immature person. — Hank Haney

Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book ... — Vanessa Veselka

I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it's uncool. It's uncool to have passion. It's so much easier to lose when you've shown everyone how much you don't care if you win or lose. It's much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you'll never win unless you also stand to lose. I've said it before. Don't be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine. — Tom Hiddleston

Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software. — Palmer Luckey

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry. — Dan Groat

The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on the mother's face, an obscene insult to the sister, or the sexual violation of a daughter. Suddenly an entire culture based on familial love, devotion, the capacity for mutual sacrifice collapses. Nothing is possible in such a universe, and that is precisely what the torturers know ... From my cell, I'd hear the whispered voices of children trying to learn what was happening to their parents, and I'd witness the efforts of daughters to win over a guard, to arouse a feeling of tenderness in him, to incite the hope of some lovely future relationship between them in order to learn what was happening to her mother, to get an orange sent to her, to get permission for her to go to the bathroom. — Jacobo Timerman

All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius. — Majid Kazmi