Constraints Quotes

• Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

  Aza Raskin

  Design, Advantage

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• Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

  Biz Stone

  Creative, Challenges, Wakes You

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

  Igor Stravinsky

  Freedom, Precision, Constrain

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

  "Bezos On Innovation". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. April 17, 2008.

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• 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.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Self, Execution, Precision

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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

  John Updike

  Firsts, Adultery, Breaths

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski

  Sexy, Issues, Important

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• 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.

  Howard Nemerov

  Sensual, Logic, Language

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

  Andrew Greeley

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Fiction And Nonfiction, Telling The Truth, Limitation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

  Chuck Hagel

  Leadership, Mean, Opportunity

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• For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Lovers, Beloved

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Business, Knowledge

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2214, Best Books on

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

  Confucius

  Revenge, Blessing, Boredom

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• There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Fortune

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• Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Gone, Modernism

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Parent, Causes

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• You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

  Denis Johnson

  Expectations, Pressure, Facts

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• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  Ted Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Space

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• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Stereotype, Materials

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.15, Harper Collins

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Men, Justice

  The Federalist no. 15 (1788)

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• Art chooses its constraints.

  Mason Cooley

  Art

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• The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  "Democratic Vistas And Other Papers".

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