Rule Quotes

• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon
  • Attacks

• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Rule

• To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Deaths

• In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Idea
  • State
  • Citizens

• Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Rule
  • Pictures
  • Mistaken

• I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.

  

  Mr. T
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Golden Rule

• It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learn
  • Rule
  • Swaraj

• For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Industry
  • Rule
  • Butterflies

• Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Rule
  • Lead
  • Unite

• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Respect
  • Rule
  • Reverence

• I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Education
  • I Believe

• I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Sound
  • Record
  • Rule

• The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us.

  

  F. Huegel
  • Help
  • Rule
  • Escape

• There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Slave

• I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

  

  Juan Gris
  • Emotion
  • Prefer
  • Corrects

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Breath
  • Possibilities

• I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Struggle
  • Rule
  • Foreigners

• You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Rule
  • Suffer
  • Hammer

• The new rules of competition require managers to start by asking what's important to their customers and where the company can make new money. Then, they need to reinvent their businesses to create the next profit zones.

  

  Adrian Slywotzky
  • Company
  • Rule
  • Profit

• The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

  

  Carl Schmitt
  • Interesting
  • Exception
  • Proves

• The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

  

  Homer
  • King
  • Rule
  • Chief

• I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Remember
  • Science
  • Stuff

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