Top 100 Thumb Rule Quotes
#1. My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
David Lynch
#2. It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz
#4. My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
Wolf Blitzer
#5. As a rule of thumb, investors should spend the bulk of their time on the disclosures of the security under study, and they should spend significant time on the reports of competitors.
Benjamin Graham^David L.Dodd
#6. I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.
Antony Starr
#7. Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne
#8. Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven Pressfield
#9. There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb ... suggests one day ... for every kilometer run in anger.
Hal Higdon
#10. My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
Michael Sheen
#11. Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.
Lee Haney
#12. As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
John Gardner
#13. The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
James E. Rogers
#14. At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.
Jo Coudert
#15. More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.
Marvin Olasky
#16. A good rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear.
Michael Dirda
#17. The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.
Dani Rodrik
#18. I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but ... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.
Sloane Crosley
#19. A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#20. I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron
#21. I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair ... that means that it's time to quit that job.
Blake Anderson
#22. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.
David Baldacci
#23. And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland
#24. My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.
Arj Barker
#25. You've got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.
Cliff Asness
#26. Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.
Michael Lewis
#27. A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
Lawrence Summers
#28. For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.
Tony Stewart
#29. Great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#30. As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic advantage.
Peter Thiel
#31. Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last in the telephone listings. With that in mind, the team chose Zapata Petroleum Corporation, after the Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata!, which was playing in Midland.
Jon Meacham
#32. Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
Paul Graham
#33. Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Chris Stapleton
#34. The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
Amy Lee
#35. My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.
Tommy Hilfiger
#36. A good rule of thumb is 'Biology enables, culture forbids.' Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It's culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others.
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. As a rule of thumb, the hermaphrodite lifestyle works well if the prospects of finding a mate are slim, for example in low-density or immobile populations (explaining why many plants are hermaphrodites), while separate sexes develop in species with higher population densities or greater mobility.
Nick Lane
#38. As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
Craig Brown
#39. As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.
Rick Perlstein
#40. The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.
Harold Ramis
#41. There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#43. His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
Neal Stephenson
#44. The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
Edward T. Welch
#45. As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
Thomas Sowell
#46. An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.
Joko Beck
#47. A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
Carlos Castaneda
#48. A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.
Dennis Miller
#49. Real-World Example = Don't constantly complain about the work conditions. (It's too bright, it's too dark, it's too cold, I wish it smelled more like cinnamon.) A simple rule of thumb to remember is, "Unless there's a live cobra in the office, I'll be all right.
Jon Acuff
#50. In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
Robert Breault
#51. Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz
#52. Almost everything can be construed as sexual harassment depending upon the way it is said. One general rule of thumb is to think of your female co-workers as you would your sister. Yes, she is a woman. No, she is not a sexual object. Yes, your parents probably like her more than they like you.
Linda Sunshine
#54. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.
Susan Cain
#55. I was petrified of making a mistake - head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#56. A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.
Adam Davidson
#57. One of my colleagues in Birmingham University, where I come from,' said Trevair, 'is a moral philosopher. He taught me that one of the ways to judge a course of action is to consider what company it puts one in. I doubt if that's very good philosophy, but I find it a good rule of thumb.
Jill Paton Walsh
#58. I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.
Malik Yoba
#59. Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts and wrong turns, conflict with parents and peers-these are some of the signs of the genuine article The way you know it's real is if it hurts.
William Deresiewicz
#60. Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash
#61. As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.
Rowena Cherry
#62. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.
Hal Young
#63. A simple rule of thumb is to shop the periphery of the grocery store - that's where you'll find meat, fish, dairy, and vegetables. Choose high-quality protein such as healthy, grass-fed beef and lamb and organic chicken and pork, and eat them in moderation.
Suzanne Somers
#64. If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#65. As a good rule of thumb, you want to secure 3-months of living expenses on the side, just in case shit hits the fan. Ideally, you'll want a 6-month rainy-day fund because it never hurts to fall back on much more.
Jay Breezy
#66. Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
Kenneth Fisher
#67. So for any new checklist created from scratch, you have to pick the type that makes the most sense for the situation.
The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.
Atul Gawande
#68. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.
David Naylor
#69. The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.
Harlan Coben
#70. A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.
Richard Thaler
#71. Investigating rule of thumb: people grumbled about work at home and about home at work.
Cate Holahan
#72. Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
Donald A. Norman
#73. If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.
Howard Rheingold
#74. Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
Timothy Noah
#75. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
Marci Shimoff
#76. A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
Ben Casnocha
#78. As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.
Craig Murray
#79. But from a purely linguistic perspective, and as a rule of thumb, when two varieties of what used to be the same language are no longer mutually intelligible, they can be called different languages.
Guy Deutscher
#80. Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.
Michael Hayden
#81. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
Steven Pressfield
#82. (As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This
Charles Wheelan
#83. If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
Robert H. Frank
#84. There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
Laura Ingraham
#85. The astronomer's rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen
Clifford Stoll
#86. I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
Barry Eisler
#87. The rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space,
Chris Hadfield
#88. Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
Andrew Tobias
#89. Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.
Rich Burlew
#90. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.
Ric Thompson
#91. Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
John Scalzi
#92. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
#93. It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
Daniel H. Wilson
#94. You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.
Craig Ferguson
#95. The rule of thumb is: the lower the temperature of the light, the more hygge. A camera flash is around 5,500 Kelvin (K), fluorescent tubes are 5,000K, incandescent lamps 3,000K, while sunsets and wood and candle flames are about 1,800K. That is your hygge sweet spot. The
Meik Wiking
#96. Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet.
Katherine Howe
#97. If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
Ernest Gaines
#98. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag.
Diana Gabaldon
#99. As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
Bill Bryson
#100. As a rule of thumb, if a verb or phrase is about wishes, emotions, doubt, denial, recommendations, knowledge and understanding, then there's a strong possibility the Subjunctive will follow.
Linda Plummer
