Quotes About Changing The Rules

#1. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

John Grisham

#2. We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

Michael Pollan

#3. You're changing the rules. I can feel you changing the rules." "Baby, I'm an outlaw. Remember?

Susan Fanetti

#4. [L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others.

John Wiswell

#5. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Garry Kasparov

#6. The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

Theresa May

#7. I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.

Myron Scholes

#8. Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

Emily Post

#9. Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there's a whole other set of rules for game writing, and we're changing them as we move along as well, which makes it more challenging.

Rhianna Pratchett

#10. In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#11. Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#12. The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Andy Hargreaves

#13. Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Caryl Rivers

#14. It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. Because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too
a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Angela Lansbury

#16. We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.

Rollo May

#17. When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

Aphex Twin

#18. I'm going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won't be here to ... to bother anyone."
He muttered two quiet words.
"What?" she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him.
"I said, try it.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

Lucinda Williams

#20. Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing.

Rob Brezsny

#21. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.

Loren Weisman

#22. When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

Eric Liu

#23. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.

Tina J. Richardson

#24. I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

Alice Hoffman

#25. I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.

George A. Romero

#26. Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free

T. B. Joshua

#27. Even when the poet seems most himself ... he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

William Butler Yeats

#28. I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

Casey Nicholaw

#29. ... the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

Alan Jacobs

#30. A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

Jeanette Winterson

#31. To think, somebody had suicided for that.

Charles Bukowski

#32. His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

Neal Shusterman

#33. Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

Theresa May

#34. Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#35. Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

#36. Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Ice Cube

#37. Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

Bill Drayton

#38. When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

Mark Nepo