Quotes About Rules

Like the foul lines, the foul poles are actually in fair territory.

The foul lines extend through the batter's box, even though the white chalk lines are not drawn there. If a hit ball bounces within the batter's box, but inside the imaginary foul lines, it will be a fair ball.

Mr. Burke explained the rules of the duel to everybody.

Arriving here feels like landing on some remote island where a bunch of people have been living for years, in isolation, making up their own rules and rituals and religion and language—even, to some extent, inventing their own reality. This happens at all organizations, but for some reason tech start-ups seem

The rules of Qannabbi are simple and elegant. Each team has five players. There's two Trimmers, one Grinder, one Rollpacker, and one Toker. The goal is for the team to clean, prepare and consume their marijuana as quickly and efficiently as possible.

I learned from a tough Philly cop, Carmen Morales. She taught me the rules." "What rules?" "Rule #1: Trust no one. Rule #2: Miss nothing. Rule #3: Reveal nothing. Rule #4: Question everything. Rule #5: Eye on the clock. Rule #6: Get lucky. Rule #7: Trust your instincts. "Good rules to live by. The army has rules too." "I bet.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

all the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort." [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]

Fill the group's windshield with clear, accessible models of excellence. • Provide high-repetition, high-feedback training. • Build vivid, memorable rules of thumb (if X, then Y). • Spotlight and honor the fundamentals of the skill.

Written language, invented by the Greeks around 550 B.C.E., has helped reinforce left hemisphere dominance (at least in the West) and created what Harvard classicist Eric Havelock called "the alphabetic mind."7 So perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the left hemisphere has dominated the game. It's the only side that knows how to write the rules.

The differences in the two thinking styles, as Baron-Cohen describes them, are intriguing. "Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail," and an attraction to fixed rules independent of context, he says. "To systematize, you need detachment." 21 (Baron describes autism as an "extreme" male brain.)

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.

No matter how crazy it seems, the world always operates by the rules. Those rules can be understood, even if it doesn't seem like it at first.

Music theorists have an arcane, rarified set of terms and rules that are as obscure as some of the most esoteric domains of mathematics.

Children need to understand the way the world works: what's permissible and what's not.

Rules about respect and behavior aren't thrown out the window simply because a child's left hemisphere is disengaged. For example, whatever behavior is inappropriate in your family—being disrespectful, hurting someone, throwing things—should remain off-limits even in moments of high emotion.

They need to know what our expectations are, and how we will respond if they break (or even bend) agreed-upon rules.

By helping them understand the rules and limits in their respective environments, we help build their conscience.

CONFUNDIMOS COHERENCIA CON RIGIDEZ «Coherencia» significa trabajar a partir de una filosofía fiable y congruente para que los niños sepan qué esperamos de ellos. Esto no significa mantener una inquebrantable devoción a algún conjunto arbitrario de reglas. Así, a veces puedes hacer excepciones a las reglas, hacer la vista gorda ante alguna infracción menor o ser más permisivo.

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.

Every movie is approved by the authorities keeping in mind the rules and regulations. Only then are these films released for public viewing.

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules don't just happen. The rules for a city are different from the ones for a village, but as a village slowly gets bigger, a city may be stuck with the rules of the village.