Abby Lee Miller Quotes

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

I follow the roles.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

Discipline must be maintained.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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

I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

I don't make any rules.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

In the military you do not get points for creativity. You get points for obedience.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

I respect the rules of the game.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.