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Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
Sallie Krawcheck
Success
You
Business
Rule
Cited
Has-Been
Impacts
Networking
Know
Unwritten
Been
Really
Who
Number
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
George Will
Life
Game
Respect
Law
Important
Distilled
Rules
Ancient
Rather
Unchanged
Purpose
Most
Judges
Opponents
Unwritten
Than
Just
Common
The Most Important
Common Law
Decisions
Show
Derives
Baseball
Codes
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow
You
Culture
Ethics
Society
Our
More
Could
Know
Obtained
Unwritten
Provide
Than
Any
Order
Your
Codes
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Anand Giridharadas
You
Charity
People
Money
Better
Made
Profit
Rule
Wealthy
Seek
Give
Knew
How
Unwritten
Celebrating
Than
Begins
After
Social
Ask
Now
Away
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Law
More
Written
Written Law
Supported
Opinion
Unwritten
Been
Than
Custom
Popular
Popular Opinion
Binding
Ever
Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.
Cass Sunstein
Political
Before
President
Ram
Those
Possible
Run
He
Taken
Make
Unwritten
Governance
Were
Trump
Norms
Donald
Donald Trump
Decided
Conventions
Assault
Even
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
People
Law
Kings
Unwritten
Which
Custom
Even
Keep
Awe
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Christopher Lasch
Family
Capitalism
Law
Will
Single
Attempt
Support
Maintain
Longer
Industry
Unwritten
Wage
Wages
American
Level
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
Dick Gregory
Work
You
Law
Dance
Black
White
Could
Talk
Sing
Unwritten
Comics
Permitted
Were
Stand
Nightclubs
It's kind of an unwritten law, I think, being - carrying the name - George Bush. At times I ask myself, 'Am I going to be able to live life the way I want to?' I'm cautious about doing certain things.
George P. Bush
Life
Myself
Live Life
Law
Live
Think
Way
Kind
Carrying
Able
About
Name
Am
Unwritten
Doing
George
George Bush
Cautious
Times
Going
Being
Want
Bush
Ask
Certain
Certain Things
Things
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
Howard Fast
Me
More
Only
Write
Lifetime
Unwritten
Than
The Only Thing
Stories
Thing
That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
Ja Rule
Best
You
Every
Rule
Record
Smash
Track
Knows
How
Hip-Hop
Unwritten
Get
Just
Want
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Jodi Picoult
Success
Writers
Unwritten
Get
Literary
Awards
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John le Carre
Book
Made
Mistakes
Few
Though
About
Talk
Unwritten
Thank
Heaven
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
Karl Pilkington
You
Other
Rule
Say
Some
About
Like
Annoyed
Unwritten
Mates
Get
Want
Really
Each
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
Kathleen Hanna
Needs
Song
Girl
Constantly
Write
Unwritten
Trying
Need
It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.
Kristin Cavallari
Girl
Rule
Boyfriend
Limits
Unwritten
Off
Up
Friends
After
Break
Break Up
Even
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer
Best
Women
Progress
Men
Men And Women
Definition
Would
Would-Be
Charter
Between
Perhaps
Powers
Narrow
Unwritten
Continuing
Efforts
Convenience
Gap
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.
Paul Mooney
You
Black
Films
Everyone
Say
Rules
Drift
Had
Written
Knew
Understand
Making
Unwritten
Were
Get
Place
Hollywood
Film
Usually, it's men who run these big monster companies, and girl companies are usually much smaller - it's like an unwritten tech-industry stigma.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Men
Girl
Big
Monster
Run
Smaller
Like
Stigma
Unwritten
Much
Who
Companies
Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
Marco Rubio
Today
Simple
Will
Own
Else
Our
Unless
Rule
Ourselves
Criticize
Rise
Someone
Adopt
Idea
Alternative
Unwritten
Offer
Us
Agree
Prepared
Let Us
Among
Here
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.
Tom Stoppard
Grateful
Waiting
Something
Unwritten
Very
Grab
Often
Happen
Hold
Wants
Turn
Play
Plays
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