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"If you develop rules, never have more than ten."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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Personal Development
"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."
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Personal Development
"I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules."
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Personal Development
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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Personal Development
"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."
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Personal Development
"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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Personal Development
"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
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Personal Development
"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"Rules are rules... sometimes we should get out of them other times we get caugh for breaking the rules... but what happens when a relative is affected in your work?Like you have to choose the relative or the work... what happens then!?"
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Personal Development
"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
Woman
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
People
"Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often."
Will
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
Government
"First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win."
Politics
"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
Management
"Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours."
Politics
"The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country."
Control
"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
Creativity
"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
Decision-Making
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