Hyman Rickover Quotes

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

Limits are very important.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

You can only do so much theatre.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

We are the richest nation in the world. We can do anything we want to do, We can do 100 things we want to do. The only thing we can’t do is everything

Our friends must not expect us to do things we cannot do.