Rules Quotes

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.