We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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Quotes tagged ‘Rules’
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
First rule for me, if it’s not something I would want to see in my feed, why would somebody else want to see it in theirs? If you don’t want to look at someone else’s Cheerios or sleeping cat, why would they want to look at yours?
How dreadful... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
Lose the antiquated set of ‘rules’ we’ve all had drilled into our pretty little skulls. About who can ask who out, and ‘don’t act too interested or he might get turned off’. These rules were made up by some delirious 19th century chick whose corset was obviously too tight.
I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.
If your arrangement appears ongoing, it's best to establish some ground rules. Ask some or all of these questions of yourself and your partner: Is this actually casual for both of us? What happens if our feelings change? How often and when do you want this to happen? Do you expect a date beforehand?…
— Ben Kassoy, gq.com
Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to…
We play by their rules long enough and it becomes our game.
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
You make up the rules and then you follow them.
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.
There are so many rules in our culture. Anything from how you build a space to what you can inject into your body is dictated by rules. And the only way that I think you can be free from external rules is to create your own personal set of rules that are even more rigid, but because they are your ow…