Kristine Kathryn Rusch Quotes

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

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.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.

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

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.

By all means break the rules.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.