Quotes About Compliance

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU

You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

They had warred side by side to affect compliance on a hundred worlds.

I'll whip you kids into shape." "Is that legal?" I asked.

They will skew. They will skim. They will downgrade. In the mindless pursuit of "hitting the numbers," people will do anything that's legal without the slightest remorse—even if it grossly violates the spirit of the mission—and they will find ways to look more favorably upon what's illegal. All of us won't stoop to this behavior all the time. But most of us will some of the time.

expectations, rules, and requests for compliance often drives the best-intentioned parents over the edge.

Now Maeve, sweetheart, do not be difficult," he chided, tipping the glass, still holding her jaw so she couldn't turn away, and watching her like a hawk to make sure she drank. "I dosed it with plenty of sugar. You'll find it sweet and tangy, just like you.

You, Sunshine, are a hostage on my ship. Do as ye're told and your stay here will be short, much to the benefit and relief of us both.

grades become a reward for compliance—but don't have much to do with learning. Meanwhile, students whose grades don't measure up often see themselves as failures and give up trying to learn.

In our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

The opposite of autonomy is control. And since they sit at different poles of the behavioral compass, they point us toward different destinations. Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. And this distinction leads to the second element of Type I behavior: mastery—the desire to get better and better at something that matters.

As Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman has explained: Say you take people who are motivated to behave nicely, then give them a fairly weak set of ethical standards to meet. Now, instead of asking them to "do it because it's the right thing to do," you've essentially given them an alternate set of standards—do this so you can check off all these boxes.

Likewise, several studies show that paying people to exercise, stop smoking, or take their medicines produces terrific results at first—but the healthy behavior disappears once the incentives are removed.

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.

If you work hard and stay in line, the machines feed you and keep you warm and alive. You learn to ignore the sharp crack of the sentry guns. Force yourself to forget what the sound means. You look for the carrot. Stop seeing the stick.

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

If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or the United States Constitution, you will be in for the fight of your life.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

Clearly, the response to terrorism and violent extremism must respect human rights and comply with international law. That is not just a question of justice but of effectiveness.