Following Rules Quotes

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teaching, Learning, Eulogy

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Broken, Lazy, Rules And Regulations

  "MacArthur Close-Up". Book by William Addleman Ganoe, 1962.

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• You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fall, Successful

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• We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

  Don DeLillo

  Believe, Grooming, Seems

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

  Aphex Twin

  People, West, Easy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

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• Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Running, Sexy, Moving

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• It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

  Roger von Oech

  Mistake, Creative Juices, Locks

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• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

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• Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pleasing Others, Firsts, Playing It Safe

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Nice, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

  Rene Descartes

  Memories, Judging, Perception

  Rene Descartes (1999). “Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy”, p.86, Hackett Publishing

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• I thought being a Christian was about following rules and going to church and being good all the time, but this girl helped me understand that it's about having a relationship with God. That was where things shifted for me.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Christian, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Vision, Patterns

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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