Quotes About Rules

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

Life is short, break the rules., forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.

In this chapter, we'll picture these rule-making and rule-breaking parts of you as humans. Tiny humans. We'll call them the Dictator and the Wild Child.

In other words, evolution is neither a free-for-all, nor the execution of a rigidly predetermined computer programme. It could be compared to a musical composition whose possibilities are limited by the rules of harmony and the structure of the diatonic scales-which, however, permit an inexhaustible number of original creations. Or it could be compared to the game of chess obeying fixed rules but with equally inexhaustible variations.

The decisive turning points in the history of every art-form are discoveries which show the characteristic features already discussed: they uncover what has always been there; they are 'revolutionary', that is, destructive and constructive; they compel us to revalue our values and impose a new set of rules on the eternal game.

The exercise of a skill is always under the dual control (a) of a fixed code of rules (which may be innate or acquired by learning) and (b) of a flexible strategy, guided by environmental pointers- the lie of the land.

Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in literature, or in art, must follow the rules without knowing them.

Vi?a nov?rsa skatienu. Vi?š ar?. Pag?tnes d?moni atgriez?s, lai vi?us sag?st?tu. Lai atkal iet?tu pag?tnes vecaj?, r?tainaj? ?d? un aizvilktu atpaka? uz turieni, kur tie paties?b? mita. Kur M?lest?bas Likumi nosaka, kuru dr?kst m?l?t. Un k?. Un cik stipri.

Perhaps Ammu, Estha and she were the worst transgressors. But it wasn't just them. It was the others too. They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much.

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag.

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

Learning was a serious business, involving endless drills, infinite rules, long hours. There was no such thing as a weekend; one studied on all save for festival days, which came with merciful regularity in Alexandria.

la cultura es a la vez algo necesario y casual, como el lecho de un nido, un refugio frente al mundo, un pequeño contra-mundo aceptado tácitamente por el grande de una forma relativamente indiferente, pues no contiene ninguna respuesta a las preguntas sobre el bien y el mal, la belleza y la fealdad, las reglas y las costumbres.

The world is ordered according to universal rules called laws of Nature, but the same rule may manifest itself differently at different intensities.

The quiet folks of America, who had played by all the rules and were now sweating in the frog pot, wanted someone who not only didn't care about speaking the King's English or living the rules of high society but openly mocked what the professional finger shakers from the media, academia, Hollywood, and politicians of both parties thought.

Unlike scholarly journals, mass-market advice books are rarely reviewed by experts in the field. Instead of getting tested research findings, most of the time you get what some author claims worked for him or her, or what someone thinks might work for you, or what some publisher's marketing department hopes you will think might work for you, all mixed in with "time-tested rules" that might have worked in the past but no longer hold true.

And he plainly disagreed with the reverence for Wittgenstein's idea that mathematics, like language, was merely a tool, a set of rules or a syntax that had no inherent meaning in itself.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

Propria noastr? existen?? impune reguli care determin? din ce loc È™i din ce moment avem posibilitatea s? observ?m universul. Altfel spus, existenÈ›a noastr? restricÈ›ioneaz? caracteristicile acelui tip de mediu în care ne afl?m.

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.