We Follow The Rules Quotes

#1. We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

William Brewster

#2. The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

Angela Lansbury

#3. We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. We remember those who made the art from which the "rules" inevitably follow.

David Bayles

#4. Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

Lotic

#6. If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus ... will abandon him with their lives.

Brandon Andress

#7. Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

Tarja Halonen

#8. He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera ... This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.

Vilem Flusser

#9. Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders ... are lower than garbage. However ... those who do not care for and support their fellows ... are even lower than that! - Obito Uchiha

Masashi Kishimoto

#10. Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Octavia E. Butler

#11. When we teach kids to follow the rules that there's only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we're resigning them to average.

Josh Linkner

#12. And so I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place and an enormous sense of stability.

Ronald Perelman

#13. All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

Patrick Swayze

#14. Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Christopher Moore

#15. Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

Ned Vizzini

#16. I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.

F. Burton Howard

#17. I could think back to my encounters with rules and regulations that didn't seem to make much sense to me, and have empathy for my children's frustrations. I understood as a very young boy that to blindly follow rules just because they're rules is to lose control over your whole life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#18. The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

George Matthew Adams

#19. You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.

Whitney Otto

#20. Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

Toby Young

#21. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

F. Sionil Jose

#22. Follow your Netiquette. Practice proper internet etiquette.

David Chiles

#23. JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

Jamie Dimon

#24. We could never truly understand God's will. We have to trust God, have faith in Him, and follow the rules He gave us without ever understanding Him.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#25. Sometimes rules have to be broken; sometimes you have to follow your heart. Sometimes doing what you're told isn't always the right thing to do. I'm sure we wouldn't have all these great inventions and philosophies if people always just did what they were told.

Dannika Dark

#26. I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense. Discipline is the key to conformity, and it is important that we learn not to question authority at an early age.

David Thorne

#27. We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is, in the end, just as disappointing and oppressive as a community based on the ability to follow rules.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#28. The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.

Lewis Thomas

#29. If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

Bob McKenzie

#30. To create the reality of space with this sense of suspension: nothing's happening, it's endless; we're traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour but nothing's happening. Nothing! And you have to do that! There are all these rules you have to follow, I've never known anything like it.

Danny Boyle

#31. Others can make the rules, but it's my decision whether to follow them." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#32. If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Ricardo Semler

#33. Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.

Hannah Arendt

#34. We are told to cover ourselves up, hide ourselves away, so that other people can have control over us, can make us follow their rules. It is a bastardization of the concept of morality, this rule of shame.

David Levithan

#35. Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For
once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or
shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my
marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

Cecelia Ahern

#36. The rules are there so that we can remember them and follow them. If the rules were obvious, we wouldn't have to write them down.

Daniel H. Wilson

#37. But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

Fannie Hurst

#38. I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

Lapo Elkann

#39. There are rules to the game but I don't believe that we need to be bound by them. If it feels appropriate to follow the rules, then by all means, follow them. If it feels better to break the rules, be creative and do it.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#40. I choose to obey explicit rules - like, you know, paying for something before I leave the store - but the rules that society implies we follow, well, those are the rules I have the most fun breaking.

Sophia Amoruso

#41. Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an exploration of history, nutrition, the human diet, and, most important, our health.

Liz Wolfe

#42. I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Amy Klobuchar

#43. To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Kristin Hersh

#44. Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

#45. But your way isn't just that set of rules," Cord said. "It's who you are - you follow that way for bigger reasons. And as long as you stay true to that, the confusion you're talking about will sort itself out eventually.

Neal Stephenson

#46. Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times ... like now ... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it.

Kristin Hannah

#47. Have to wait my turn.
Have to follow the rules.
Have to smile like I agree.
Have to
Have to
Have to
Have to
Choose him.

Holly Bodger

#48. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

Tamora Pierce

#49. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

Francisco Goya

#50. Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#51. Her mother gave her strict instructions to follow the school phone policy and not use it until after the final bell rings. If she violates the rules and the phone is taken away, she won't get any sympathy from her parents.

Tara Ellis

#52. Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

Osho

#53. Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

Denzel Whitaker

#54. The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

Henri Nouwen

#55. Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Paulo Coelho

#56. I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender

Orson Scott Card

#57. 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

#58. It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

Bob Iger

#59. Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

Scarlett Thomas

#60. 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

#61. Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#62. I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

Ingvar Kamprad

#63. If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.

Apparat

#64. Found out that his life didn't have to follow the rules,
and they both found out that love is a pain in the ass.

Jane Seville

#65. You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.

Barry Ritholtz

#66. Luc : It's time for our annual review of Rules You Disrespectful Bastards Never Follow.

Chloe Neill

#67. Rules are usually in place because they help the people who made them, more than the people who have to follow them. Same goes for people who have questions they want you to answer. Keep some shit just for you. Gives you an edge

S.E. Jakes

#68. Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru said.

Haruki Murakami

#69. Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.

J.D. Mason

#70. God, I hate rogue necromancers," said Magnus. "Why can't they just follow the rules?"
"Probably because the biggest rule is 'no necromancy'?" Emma suggested

Cassandra Clare

#71. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Daniel Kahneman

#72. Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

Nikki Haley

#73. Rules are in every company for everyone to follow. Eh, except salespeople.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Jeffrey Gitomer

#74. Meetings run best when there are clear rules or norms to follow. These are sometimes difficult to set at the start of the meeting. People may feel reluctant to speak up and suggest rules or there may be pressure to start discussing the agenda items.

Ingrid Bens

#75. It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

Taiichi Ohno

#76. Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

Stacy London

#77. 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

#78. If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn