Rules Quotes

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

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 like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.