Top 79 Quotes About Following Rules
#1. Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?
Steve Goodier
#2. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
#3. 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.
Shakti Gawain
#4. People preferred to live in a huge asylum religiously following rules written by who knows who, rather than fighting for the right to be different.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.
Frans De Waal
#6. When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
Edward Weston
#7. We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don DeLillo
#8. It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.
Roger Von Oech
#9. You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.
Aphex Twin
#10. Oh my God! Get out right now!"
Gio blinked, surprised at her sudden vehemence. "I was in here first."
"The upstairs is - "
"Off-limits. Yeah, I know. So were you, but that didn't stop me. In case you haven't noticed, I have serious issues with following rules.
Bethany-Kris
#11. In the hierarchy of moral development, as defined by Lawrence Kohlberg, the lowest level is "following rules only to avoid punishment." The highest level is "following rules because they are right and good.
Jerry L. Wyckoff
#12. An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.
Kate Carlisle
#13. I thought being a Christian was about following rules and going to church and being good all the time, but this girl helped me understand that it's about having a relationship with God. That was where things shifted for me.
Kelly Clark
#14. If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
James Sinegal
#15. 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
#16. Jackson is so busy following the rules and doing everything he thinks he's supposed to do that he doesn't really ever live.
Sierra Avalon
#17. I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations,
Osama Bin Laden
#18. The church must constantly fight the tendency to make rules and policies more important than people, because when that happens we are no longer following Jesus.
Kyle Idleman
#19. Following the rules is fine. But finding a way around them can be fun and adventurous.
Sandra Golden
#20. Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag.
Katie McGarry
#21. But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.
Lionel Shriver
#22. Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that.
Jessica Love
#23. She was stolen innocence, following the rules of monsters. Somewhere along the way, she'd become one.
Pam Godwin
#24. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#26. The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.
Assegid Habtewold
#27. It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.
Rufi Thorpe
#28. Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on.
"Still breaking them?" she fired back.
Robin Bielman
#29. ... there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen.
Gin Phillips
#30. I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#31. It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.
John Mackey
#32. I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ...
Brene Brown
#33. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.
Auliq Ice
#34. I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss Jami
#35. There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.
Orson Scott Card
#36. Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.
Jason Evert
#37. Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who'd be next?
Peter J. Tanous
#38. Becoming a godly wife is not about following a bunch of rules... If I am feeling overwhelmed and overburdened, I am probably trying to do this in my power, apart from the Spirit's strength.
April Cassidy
#39. However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.
Terry Pratchett
#40. For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#41. In a system in which cheating is the norm, following the rules amounts to a handicap.
Cathy O'Neil
#42. Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they're told. We're the other one percent, so we built our own world with our own rules.
Joanna Wylde
#43. I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
Anna Kendrick
#44. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.
Robert C. Martin
#45. My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
David Byrne
#46. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthur
#47. She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn't understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.
Shannon A. Thompson
#48. Promise One: Love and listen to my father. This whole time I've been obeying his every word, following all the rules, saying all the right things. But I never did what he really wanted all along.
Because I was never really listening.
Jackson Pearce
#49. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#50. Maybe that works for Tiny, but it never works for me. Shutting up works. Following the rules works. So I shut up, and I don't care, and I keep walking, and soon it's over.
John Green
#51. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.
Brad Thor
#52. He'd survived by following two very important rules: don't feel anything and don't expect anything from anyone.
G.P. Ching
#53. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
Banksy
#54. If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.
Nina Garcia
#55. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.
Christofer Emgard
#56. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
Terence McKenna
#57. Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.
David Sedaris
#59. The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.
Gerald Jonas
#60. Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend following a good name!
Michael Covel
#61. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
#62. Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.
David Chiles
#63. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Criss Jami
#65. I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation.
Penny Reid
#67. It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.
Susannah Constantine
#68. Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
Cathryn Louis
#69. I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.
Susane Colasanti
#70. The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.
Susan Richards Shreve
#71. I'm following a dream and as far as I know there are no rules in a dream....
Danny Kemp
#72. Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him
Francis Chan
#73. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.
Ray A. Davis
#74. You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,
David Brooks
#75. Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.
Scot McKnight
#76. My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
Madchen Amick
#77. Following the rules only takes you so far, sooner or later you have to forget them and play by your heart.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#79. You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown.
Nicholas Sparks
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