Ground rules Quote by David Akadjian

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“(...) just being nice is not a winning strategy. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked…

— Sheryl Sandberg

No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system…

— Anonymous

“Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.” “Oh?” I turn at the waist and look at him curiously.…

— J.A. Redmerski

Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they…

— Thomas Pogge

What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure…

— Pierre Omidyar

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have…

— Vikram Seth

Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must…

— Charlotte Rae

Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes…

— Robert Kuttner

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,'…

— Michael Hastings

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

— F. Lee Bailey

I learned that if you're going to move in with a friend, it's important to establish ground rules immediately so there aren't any misunderstandings…

— Tinsley Mortimer