Quotes About Rules

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

And so the impulses of nature are what give authenticity to life, not obeying rules come from a supernatural authority, that's the sense of the Grail.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?

In the South, workers would be tittyweeping that someone had broken the "rules" by giving away government property. But here, discipline reigns

All this conditioning is designed to prepare us for the workforce, where we will be expected to follow the same rules, conform to the same expectations, and perform tasks efficiently without questioning our purpose. Keep in mind that governments make most of their income from employee taxes, so it benefits them by producing employees who will pay taxes and become the income source for the state.

Biologists sometimes get physics envy, because every time we find out one of our big rules – universal genetics, evolution by natural selection – things look more complex within them as soon as we begin to look.

I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have to wear all of these things together; you can't button this button.' You know, all of that kind of stuff.

Penalties are part of the game.

I would hate to see the championship decided on grid penalties.

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.

There's a perception out there that Airbnb doesn't want there to be rules. We think rules would be fantastic. We think rules would help our community, but not necessarily the rules that have simply existed for decades.

See, no matter how hard you work, perception is something that rules this industry. Talent comes much later. That's why I am cautious about what I say and whom I meet.

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.

As a performer, I need to change in the ring, to be a little bit more aggressive and go about things in a different way rather than Bayley following the rules all the time.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,

For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) sets masters over one which are more tyrannical than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak.

For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) 3 sets masters over one which are more tyrannical [D] than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak. Just