Ben Harper Quotes

What you have to do is break all the rules.

By all means break the rules.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I want to break standards.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

I love challenging the status quo.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

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

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

The French higher education system has not adapted to this revolutionary period. [It] rewards people for their capacity to follow the path that is open to them. It does not encourage people to rebel or to develop their character.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.