Constraints Quotes

• 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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• Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

  Aza Raskin

  Design, Advantage

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

  Joanna Lumley

  Social, Felt

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

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Statistics, Used, Type

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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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• 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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