personal rules Quotes

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

My rule - and I feel like this is a pretty good rule for life - no drinking while on television. I do not ever imbibe.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.

No beer before 5 p.m., wait... did I just say that?

I made a rule not to be on reality shows.

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.