Ground Rules Quotes

• Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules.

  Horst Seehofer

  Needs, Flexible, Ifs

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Acepte estas reglas básicas: Sé curioso, conversador y realista. No persuada ni interrumpa. Escucha, escucha, escucha.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Curious, Agree

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• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environmental, Development

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). "El medio es el masaje: un inventario de efectos", Hardwired

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• Uso las normas para frustrar la ley. Pero yo no establecí las reglas básicas.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Law, Use

  New York Times, September 20, 1970.

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• Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

  Justin Trudeau

  Civilization, Usual, Assumption

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Doors, Long

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Struggle, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.36, Thomas Nelson

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• Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they God-given. We make these rules, those of the WTO [World Trade Organization] Treaty for instance, which fill tens of thousands of pages. These words have been strung together by human beings and are also interpreted and enforced by human beings.

  Thomas Pogge

  Our World, Organization, Together

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Voice, Pieces

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• This as hard an R as we wrote in the beginning. It was fast. It was fast mainly because of De Luca. We came in with De Luca. Nic I think had a deal with Millennium and so we ended up with Millennium quickly and they said, 'Go make the movie that you want to make. Basically, here are the ground rules; stay within the budget, stay within the time and go make your movie.'

  Todd Farmer

  Thinking, Want, Millennium

  Fuente: collider.com

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• What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Community, Infrastructure, Members

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• Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Teaching, School, Taught Us

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• But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Surveillance, Authority, Undisciplined

  "Wozu noch Philosophie? (Why still philosophy?)". Paper by Theodor Adorno, 1963.

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• When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

  Morley Safer

  Widows, Alive, Interviews

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• I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.

  Philip Yancey

  Reality, Order, Perfect

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• If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Writing, Mean

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• Aunque los editorialistas de The New York Times y The Washington Post siguen sin entenderlo, la mayoría de los demócratas del Congreso por fin lo entienden: Las disputas comerciales actuales ya no tratan principalmente de aranceles, cuotas o libre entrada de mercancías. Se trata de las reglas básicas del capitalismo. ¿Sólo debe haber derechos de propiedad? ¿Qué pasa con los demás derechos por los que han luchado las democracias liberales desde la década de 1880?

  Robert Kuttner

  New York, Democracias, Derechos

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• No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.

  John A. Hannah

  Change, Loyalty, Men

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• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

  Vikram Seth

  Character, Frustration, Peculiar

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