Rules Of Thumb Sayings

#1. Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.

Anonymous

#2. Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

Haruki Murakami

#3. You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Herbert Simon

#5. Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Jill Lepore

#6. Perhaps being named "black" was just someone's name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To hate me for standing there.
I always feel I have to open my mouth,
And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

Ani DiFranco

#8. They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.

Tom Thumb

#9. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#10. In 2014, the Earth's gravity is weakest in southern India (blue spot) and strongest in Iceland and Indonesia (red spots).

Kip S. Thorne

#11. Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Ani DiFranco

#12. You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Lev Grossman

#13. The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Ayn Rand

#14. Her husband was asleep beside her. She could

Alice McDermott

#15. Eadlyn, you're under a lot of stress. We understand. And short of becoming an ax murderer, there's nothing you could do to make me love you less."
I laughed. "An ax murderer? That's your limit?"
"Well...maybe even then." She winked at me.

Kiera Cass

#16. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

Samuel Goldwyn

#18. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing.

Jaco Van Dormael

#19. One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Philip Emeagwali