Constraints Quotes

Constraints Quote of the day

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Art chooses its constraints.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.