A Quote by Dalai Lama

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Dalai Lama

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Break Effectively Know Rules Them Well

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Dalai Lama
Tibetan - Leader
Born: July 6, 1935

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

Tim Gunn

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Robert Bringhurst

If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.

Dan Gutman

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Dalai Lama

I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

Paula Scher

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Alan Arkin

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

Alexander McQueen

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

Johann Johannsson

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Baggini

The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.

Ed Seykota

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Alexander McQueen

I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Helmut Krone

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Richard Rohr

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Aleister Crowley

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.