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Quotes About Guidelines

While legal lines sharply define what can and cannot be done, our personal sense of right and wrong doesn't necessarily hew so closely to them.
~ Andrew Mayne
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
~ Rene Descartes
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.
~ Oscar Munoz
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
~ Barry White
Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
~ John Lydon
During the second call, I explained that since we were both (meaning the buyer and me) busy people, I thought it would save a lot of time if he could answer a few quick questions over the phone. That way, I explained, I could avoid sending him properties that did not fall within his guidelines.
~ Robert J. Ringer
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Harper was strictly forbidden from enlarging existing departments or adding new ones.
~ Ron Chernow
It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.
~ Alan Turing
This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal Codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it might not be simpler to rely on something like the Ten Commandments, which, with a bit of modernisation, seemed to give a perfectly good set of guidelines for the conduct of one's life
~ Alexander McCall Smith
This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it might not be simpler to rely on something like the Ten Commandments, which, with a bit of modernization, seemed to give a perfectly good set of guidelines for the conduct of one's life...
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
~ Charles Stanley
Our broken criminal justice system has rejected individual justice and discretion it requires, and instead insists on robotic and inflexible mandatory sentencing, sentencing guidelines, death sentences, life without possibility of parole, the actual or de facto elimination of sentence modifications, pardons, commutations, expungement, and record sealing." - Lary Krasner
~ Jody Armour
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
~ Robin Wright
They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
la ética es proactiva, es decir busca lo bueno y no sólo pretende evitar lo malo: a partir de principios morales, proyecta directrices futuras y transforma la convivencia y la colaboración dentro de la empresa, innovando hacia lo mejor y no solo prohibiendo lo evidentemente peor.
~ Fernando Savater
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
~ Ian Hacking
Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines - they aren't 'rules,' because the sanctions for breaching the guidelines are puny.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.
~ Daphne Guinness
It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like restriction in terms of age, tenure etc.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Social media guidelines are shared with all employees who participate and are posted for the public to view at the company website.
~ Robert Spector
The idea of utilitarianism is simple: the fundamental guidelines for moral discourse are pleasure and pain. Things can be called good to the extent that they raise the amount of happiness in the world and bad to the extent that they raise the amount of suffering. The purpose of a moral code is to maximize the world's total happiness.
~ Robert Wright