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

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspire, Business Relationship, Approach

  "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. May 17, 2007.

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• And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.

  Peter Abelard

  Sweet, Believe, Men

  Peter Abelard, Héloïse (2017). “Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.40, Litres

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• Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Wings

  Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press

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• If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Giving, Liberty, Speech

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• A wise man does nothing by constraint.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Doe

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

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Creativity, Self, Chaos

  Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Design, Stills, Accommodate

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• And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

  Ginni Rometty

  Technology, Being A Woman, Changed

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Fortune Most Powerful Women summit, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

  Hank Green

  Space, Live In The Present, Continuum

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• Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Real, Unique, Keys

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, en.wikiquote.org. 2008.

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• Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

  John Carroll

  Self, Political, Theatre

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• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

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• In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

  Albert Camus

  Culture, World, Persuasion

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the
  others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Choices, Degrees

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

  Paul Shepard

  Dream, World, Realizing

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.6, Island Press

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• Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or untraviolet light, for example. We can hear only a small range of sounds. When we try to describe the otherworld of energies and spirits, we are limited not only by our bodily constraints but by the expectations, assumptions, and language patterns ingrained in us by the culture we were raised in.

  Starhawk

  Reality, Light, Expectations

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Constraint inspires creativity

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Inspire, Inspire Creativity

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• Embrace your constraints.

  Biz Stone

  Embrace

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

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• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  M. King Hubbert

  Two, Growth, Culture

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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