You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
We don't make the rules. We just play by them.
The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
My responsibility is to follow the law.
I just want everybody to follow the law.
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.
I didn't do anything with the thought that I want to go against society or bend any rules.
I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.
I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
We don't break the law.
I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems.
