Top 1200 Breaking Rules Quotes & Sayings

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

I am extremely, annoyingly compliant. I hate breaking the rules, and I love it when people tell me what to do and I can deliver.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?

When I started working on the sounds and music of 'Breaking the Rules,' I figured that I am really good at it so I was happy.

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Trump is like an eater of worlds from an 'Avengers' movie, but there seem to be different rules for him. What are Twitter doing, for example? He's constantly breaking their rules, the sort of stuff other people get thrown off for.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

love means breaking all the rules

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

I think my older sister bought me booze before I was 21. You know, breaking rules, but it's what a sibling is supposed to do.

I am a rule follower. I think rules are there for a reason. I don't like breaking them.

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

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.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document'.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

There are comedic rules and formulae and, while these tenets should be respected, especially by a newcomer, perversely you can still succeed by openly contradicting them. Because comedy is about breaking the rules. Even its own rules. Though, as with many disciplines, it is wise to master the basics before you attempt to subvert them.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

I like breaking the rules.

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.