Constraints Quotes

• 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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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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• You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

  Tim Ferriss

  Believe, People, Tools

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• It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

  Sigmund Freud

  Nature, Children, Humanity

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications”

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Law, Long

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.259, OUP Oxford

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art chooses its constraints.

  Mason Cooley

  Art

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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 in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Architecture, Horror

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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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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• I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

  Ron Kind

  Leadership, Believe, Important

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• I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

  Joanna Lumley

  Social, Felt

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

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Statistics, Used, Type

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

  Ted Shackelford

  Decision, Television, Quick Decisions

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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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• I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

  Martin Yan

  Thinking, Fame, Being Famous

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

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Fortune

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

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Mother

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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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