Thumb Rules Quotes

#1. Starship command is like comedy, Number One. Timing is everything.

David Mack

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

Jill Lepore

#3. 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

#4. No, of course not,' he agreed in a tone that implied he'd heard both the words I'd said and the words I hadn't said and would be mulling them over later on his own.

Timothy Zahn

#5. Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

Robin Hobb

#6. An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

Claire Messud

#7. But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

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

Haruki Murakami

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Johannes Tauler

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

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#13. 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

#14. 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