Thomas Reid Quotes

Limits are very important.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

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

I have rules for everything.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

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

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

I don't make any rules.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

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

My creativity thrives with limitations.

Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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