Rule Following Quotes

#1. I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

Matt Nix

#2. Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases. - SENECA

Ryan Holiday

#5. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.

Marcel Proust

#6. I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just ... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.

David Foster Wallace

#10. RVM Thoughts for Today
Some live Life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the Book and get stuck by the Hook. Break free today , let conscience guide your way.

R.v.m.

#11. Some live Life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the Book and get stuck by the Hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way.-RVM

R.v.m.

#12. 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

#13. To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Anna Godbersen

#15. An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Karen Thompson Walker

#16. What is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul ...

John Geddes

#17. I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.

Anna Kendrick

#18. For the love of God, woman, there's only one rule in that bloody book worth following.'
'And that is?' Elizabeth asked disdainfully.
'That you marry your damned marquis!

Julia Quinn

#19. If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

Ken Robinson

#20. Study the scriptures; pray morning and night; keep a near, well-groomed appearance; follow a schedule; set and achieve goals; be honest in all your dealings; keep commandments; and always live the standards revealed by prophets.

Robert D. Hales

#21. No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

Xenophanes

#22. Then I'd been determined to be the best blind foster the world had ever known, following every rule, obeying every protocol, the very model of royal fae youth. Maybe that way, they would send for me. I could go home.

Seanan McGuire

#23. Where do we go when we die? he said.
- I don't know, the man said. Where are we now?

Cormac McCarthy

#24. Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Kool Moe Dee

#25. A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Keith Olbermann

#26. Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Warren Farrell

#27. 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

#28. As a general rule, it is difficult for people in public life to change their minds. There is an immediate rush to portray politicians as "flip-floppers" when they shift position on anything, even if they do so following a careful consideration of an issue rather than a meeting with a pollster.

Anonymous

#29. 103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#30. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule ...

R. Buckminster Fuller

#31. The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

#32. I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Max Euwe

#33. It was one January morning, very early - a pinching, frosty morning - the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#34. Although we intuitively know the world has changed, most leaders reflect a model and leader development process that are sorely out of date. We often demand unrealistic levels of knowledge in leaders and force them into ineffective attempts to micromanage.

Stanley McChrystal

#35. the following paragraph from an article of his on British rule in India, written in 1853:

Anonymous

#36. I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.

Robert Greenblatt

#37. My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

Robert Winston