Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. — Joshua Reynolds
Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning… — Dana Plato
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules… — Xunzi
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things -… — Stephen Wolfram
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the… — William Robertson Smith
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them… — Ellen Terry
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to… — Alexander Fleming
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have… — Renzo Piano
Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's.… — William Walker Atkinson
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. — William Lilly
We're not so free that we don't have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of… — Martha Stewart
It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I… — Edmund Kemper
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think… — Guy Kawasaki
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend… — Akio Morita
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms… — Taiichi Ohno
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and… — Michael Korda
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the… — John Stuart Mill
The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be… — James Fitzjames Stephen
When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules,… — Sun Tzu
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love. — Isaac Watts
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens. — Vi Hart
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and… — Paul Schrader
That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters. — Vincent de Paul

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