Quotes About Guidelines

The first: limit the rules. The second: Use the least force necessary to enforce those rules.

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If you're not a master, don't confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

You have very little right to break the rules, until you have mastered them.

respect for the rules, except when following those rules means disregarding or ignoring or remaining blind to an even higher moral principle

Here's a straightforward initial idea: rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

I don't need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army... operates according to the international law guidelines.

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

Cover your ass when you're bending the rules.

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

Freedom should be manifested within clear ethical guidelines and an egalitarian feedback structure. Informed

Events and experiences in life determine our attitude. If we have a positive experience with a person, our attitude towards him is likely to be positive and conversely negative experiences tend to make us cautious. Experiences and events become reference points in our lives and we draw conclusions which serve as guidelines for the future.

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Boundaries are to take care of ourselves, not to control others. If we set a boundary not to be around practicing alcoholics, it isn't to force Harvey to stop drinking. Harvey can choose to drink or not drink. Our boundary gives us a guideline to make our choice—whether we want to be around Harvey.

The Constitution was written in such a way as to make this power grab almost impossible. As long as we follow its guidelines, it will be difficult for any force, external or internal, to successfully remove American liberties.

Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.

On our single sheet of foolscap we've got the Big Beats. Now what? Fill in the gaps. David Lean famously declared that a feature film should have seven or eight major sequences. That's a pretty good guideline for our play, our album, our State of the Union address.

Being rule-governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints. I'm happiest when signs are posted. No spitting, no public urination, no walking on the grass. I might not obey, but at least I knew where I stood.

i'm happiest when signs are posted--no spitting, no public urination, no walking on the grass. i might not obey but at least i know where i stood.

God's message is that we are largely on our own. We are the ones who give moral guidelines body and life. You can take, if you will, your solace in heaven, but you must work out your ethics on earth.

Still, the first rule of cohabitation is Thou Shalt Not Diss the Other Dude's Kinfolk.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

You need to kind of have a rubric, how you want to be, how you want to interact in this industry.