Robert Bringhurst Quotes

You've got to know the rules to break them.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

I love challenging the status quo.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.