Sylvie Guillem Quotes

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I've never been any good with authority.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

I cannot stand authority.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I don't take well to rules.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Learn to obey before you command.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I don't run behind authority.