Rules Quotes

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Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety. — Confucius
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then… — Joseph Campbell
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. — Bill Veeck
In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which… — Pierre de Coubertin
We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules. — Woody Hayes
You get a team that goes out there and they find a little bit of something that advantage is going to seem larger then it… — Chad Knaus
Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone. — Judah Smith
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. — Mary Quant
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along… — Jackson Browne
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would… — Angela Cartwright
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been… — Jonathan Swift
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. — Raymond Carver
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough. — Daniel Gilbert
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne
It became the middle finger I couldnâ€™t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing… — Robin Olds
Rules cannot take the place of character. — Alan Greenspan
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni

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