Top 59 Sayings About Following The Rules
#1. Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.
David Sedaris
#2. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
#3. 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
#4. In a system in which cheating is the norm, following the rules amounts to a handicap.
Cathy O'Neil
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Following the rules is fine. But finding a way around them can be fun and adventurous.
Sandra Golden
#10. 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
#11. Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that.
Jessica Love
#12. She was stolen innocence, following the rules of monsters. Somewhere along the way, she'd become one.
Pam Godwin
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.
Assegid Habtewold
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.
Auliq Ice
#32. I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss Jami
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
Anna Kendrick
#40. My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
David Byrne
#41. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthur
#43. 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
#44. The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.
Gerald Jonas
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. 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
#50. I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation.
Penny Reid
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.
Ray A. Davis
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
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