You don’t need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
There’s so many strict ideas and rules, whether it’s from religion or it’s just generations and generations.
I’ve always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.
I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn’t be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the fact that I may not like that piece of music and you may… The validation is in the fact that somebody gets something from it.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
In the ‘Nike Economy,’ there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn’t working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
Rules are important, but they’re temporary and they’re always supposed to be changed.
The Internet is a giant ‘lab experiment’ for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.
I believe young people need rules. They will respond to discipline.
Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
‘State’ can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb – it’s kind of why I chose that title. It’s not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.
Every relation forms its own defined and non-defined rules.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn’t doing those three things, then I couldn’t do acting anymore.
My life hasn’t been conventional and it hasn’t been linear. I’ve had to make it up as I’ve gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don’t accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it’s up to you to work out where you’re going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
I don’t make any rules.
Allow me a bit of philosophy here… We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
I just like playing with makeup and clothes – so I really don’t feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it’s up to you to break them.
A hedonistic lifestyle contrary to all the rules and expectations of Islam is not an unusual precursor to radicalisation: in fact, some young radicals see joining in the jihad as a way of achieving redemption for past sins.
One of the trickiest things about ‘Game of Thrones’ is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
If no one ever broke the rules, then we’d never advance.
There’s nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it’s true – too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.
I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I’m not doing my job properly.
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
It’s much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
Rule A: Don’t. Rule A1: Rule A doesn’t exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It’s a completely different world.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.
A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized – the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.
We can’t give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.
If you’re willing to work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to move up.
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny… To me, those are people who think the rules don’t apply to them.
I’m learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that’s how it is. I’m really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don’t need to drink.
You’re not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.
I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.
What’s very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism – otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group – otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
You’re not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they’ll get you for it, they’ll hunt you down. That’s the really frightening thing.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
