Rules Quotes

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

Game, Play, Else

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

Anywhere, Observed

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

Today, Play, Same

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

Fun, Miss, Obey

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Truth, Sex, Tell

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

Family, Mistakes, Feelings

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Trying, Hell, Here

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

Computers, Old, Mercy

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Law, Others

Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck

Husband, Care, Wife

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

Beauty, Patriotism, Nothing

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle Obama

Success, Truth, Integrity

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer

Time, Live, Rather

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Nature, Law, Same

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Knows

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

Book, Jesus, Put

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, United, Written

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
Joel Osteen

Life, Trying, Living

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking

Fire, Universe, Makes

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Principles, Sacred

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham

Writing, Three, Knows

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

Love, Power, Shadow

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family, Enough, Won

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