Rules Rules Link Quotes & Sayings

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. — George Orwell

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter. — Toni Sorenson

She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the world for her. She knew her link to real things was weak [ ... ] She had hoped knowledge of mathematics, the world's rules, might strengthen her hold. But it did not. The world turned opaque and medieval, its every event mysterious. Now she uses a private mathematics, one made from omens and signs and dreams. — Josephine Humphreys

I liked going to Catholic school. — Michael Keaton

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes. — David O. McKay

You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God — Sunday Adelaja

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked. — Mo Rocca

Then there were her rules, rules that stated quite clearly that he was a 'no-go' area. She drew a deep breath and tried to make a decision in keeping with her rules. But the words would not come. She could not decide to give him up. Her inner self would not even contemplate it. Somehow, he had touched her soul in a way that she could not explain adequately. She felt a link there that was too real to consider severing. Kate felt the anguish of this conflict between her morality and her acceptance of the bond that did exist between them, despite her incredulity and despite her objections. — Khul Waters

As he throws himself into one scheme after another, he draws lessons that improve his focus and judgment. He knits what he learns into mental models of investing, which he then uses to size up more complex opportunities and find his way through the weeds, plucking the telling details from masses of irrelevant information to reach the payoff at the end. These behaviors are what psychologists call "rule learning" and "structure building." People who as a matter of habit extract underlying principles or rules from new experiences are more successful learners than those who take their experiences at face value, failing to infer lessons that can be applied later in similar situations. Likewise, people who single out salient concepts from the less important information they encounter in new material and who link these key ideas into a mental structure are more successful learners than those who cannot separate wheat from chaff and understand how the wheat is made into flour. — Peter C. Brown

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore — Christina Carson

When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it. — Jerry Weintraub