Top 1200 Following Rules Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Rules are what governs us as humans, but it was wonderful to meet a man who said "There are no rules. You gotta be what you gotta be and you gotta believe in it." I know that's a feeling I used to feel a lot at a younger age, and through the sense of responsibility and working with so many and taking on so many duties and actions, you lose if you don't stay on top of it. So that's what I love about this man, that there are no rules.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

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.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

The good thing about rules is if you have to do an interview, and you make some rules for that interview, like, "I can only ask him about five years of his life or her life," it narrows down your story. It's the same thing with acting. In my profession, if I say, "These are the rules for this character," all of the sudden, you create life.

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

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

Never follow anybody else`s idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one`s nature than to live following somebody`s else`s nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one`s nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

There are important rules in life - like not parking on yellow lines or stealing from your neighbour. But some rules are made to be broken.

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

I feel like Hendrick just plays games in a way with NASCAR. I feel like they always start the year off kind of bad to like show NASCAR that they're being nice and cooperating and following the rules and stuff, and then it gets a couple of months in, and then they start cheating and finding some speed.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

In some ways, to believe in evolution is almost like a following; a cult following - if you don't believe in evolution, you're considered completely backward. That seems to me very indicative of bias as well.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.

These aren't my rules. Come to think of it. I don't have any rules.

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

There's only rules if you place rules on yourself.

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

If you are leading others and you're lonely, then you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading!

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

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

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

In that world, 'villain' can simply be a label given to someone who doesn't conform. There are these unwritten rules in Bachelor Nation... I never follow those rules.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules. You have to operate by the rules of the system, and if you don't, if you pull rank, then you lose all your credibility.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.