Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Sometimes you have to go above the law.

Does anyone in the UFC actually follow the rules?

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.

So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.