Self-Imposed Rules Quotes

Art chooses its constraints.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

I don't have any limits in my life.

I don't think limits.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

I have tried to be that player who plays within himself, but I just can't do that.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

I lead a very disciplined life.

I lead a very disciplined life.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

I am my own policeman.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.