Seek Forgiveness, not Permission
Paul Flynn FUniSA, GAICD, FFIA
Group Chief Executive Officer @ The Hospital Research Foundation Group | University Fellow University of South Australia l Company Director
Teddy Roosevelt encapsulated my feelings about seeking forgiveness and not permission in 1910 in his 'Citizenship in a Republic' speech when he said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
It may not be what he had in mind but I have always found it inspiring to consider!
Director at Greenway Architects
9 年Strong and valid words indeed. More uplifting than "You gotta risk it, if you want the biscuit!".....!
- Project Research Librarian at State Library of South Australia - Archivist & Historian at Story Management
9 年Thanks Paul. That's just the inspiration I needed!