Clear Rules Quotes

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing.