Top 23 Ignoring The Rules Quotes
#1. Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
Adam Davidson
#2. It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
Rob Sheffield
#3. To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.
Anthony The Great
#4. Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#5. For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
Michael Ondaatje
#6. The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.
Paul Feyerabend
#7. Whatever you can think of, do it now. Because you'll never be this young again.
Robyn Roze
#8. Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them ... the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
Billy Graham
#9. I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
Dan Wells
#10. To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.
Teresa Amabile
#11. If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
Guy Kawasaki
#12. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
Elmore Leonard
#13. Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
Lawrence Lessig
#14. Their wings will shadow the sun, their breath will scorch the earth, and their fire will consume the righteous!"
"So we all die ?"
"No, no, no! We fight them!"
"How do you fight a dragon ?" I asked him.
"With prayer, boy, with prayer."
"So we all die.
Bernard Cornwell
#16. To be number one, you must train like you are number two.
Maurice Greene
#17. There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.
Mirjana Puhar
#18. Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#19. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
My love should kindle to inflamed respect.
William Shakespeare
#20. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
#21. On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel
#23. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.
Joseph Sobran