622 Quotes About Rules

But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.

A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated - or welcomed, depending on your point of view - to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

Lerne die Regeln, damit du weißt, wie du sie brichst.

Do not allow the craziest person to make the rules. This is harder than it sounds.

IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE GAME, THE BOUNDARIES AND RULES MUST BE COMMON

We should spend less time shadowing the old rules and more time shaping the new ones.

The reason why I prioritized philosophy over law in my higher education is for my ambivalent relationship with rules. Mathematics compensates it where the mind becomes creative, conceptual and flexible but also logically organized, data and rules-driven.

There are no real rules, so make rules that work for you.