Rule Of Thumb Quotes

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat. — David Baldacci

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love. — Amy Lee

Great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong. — Edward T. Welch

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well. — Wolf Blitzer

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. — Steven Pressfield

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off. — Lee Haney

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. — Chris Stapleton

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true. — Craig Murray

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. — Thomas Sowell

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. — Craig Brown

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. — Laurie A. Helgoe

You've got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen. — Cliff Asness

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches. — Kenneth Fisher

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself. — Michael Sheen

A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer. — Robert A. Heinlein

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. — James E. Rogers

If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

(As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This — Charles Wheelan

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. — David Lynch

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. — Timothy Noah

Investigating rule of thumb: people grumbled about work at home and about home at work. — Cate Holahan

The rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space, — Chris Hadfield

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion. — Ben Casnocha

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it. — Antony Starr

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair ... that means that it's time to quit that job. — Blake Anderson

The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all. — Harlan Coben

Rule of thumb: when in doubt, find a marine. — Ally Carter

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. — John Podhoretz

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. — Robert Breault

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. — Andrew Tobias

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. — Diana Gabaldon

The astronomer's rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen — Clifford Stoll

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. — Richard Thaler

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry. — Jo Coudert

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times. — Joko Beck

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. — Craig Ferguson

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't. — John Gardner

His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities. — Neal Stephenson

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. — Jonathan Safran Foer

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan. — Rowena Cherry

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. — Daniel H. Wilson

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. — Christopher Hitchens

My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. — David Naylor

A good rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear. — Michael Dirda

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France. — Robert H. Frank

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error. — Dennis Miller