Restriction Quotes - Page 12

• Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Environmental, Pressure

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

  Dries van Noten

  Creativity, Negative

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• In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fighting, Games, People

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

  William Golding

  Children, Clever, Curiosity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.

  Max Anders

  Beautiful, People, Stones

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• The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced, they seem almost inevitably - unless surrounded by the most rigid restrictions - to get out of hand. The second lesson is that once this happens the poor become more numerous and worse off than they were before, not only because they have lost self-reliance, but because the sources of wealth and production on which they depend for either doles or jobs are diminished or destroyed.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Jobs, Self, Hands

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• In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Liberty, Fields, Driving

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.200, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Filters, Earth, Imagine

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• Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

  Joel Miller

  Jumping, Government, Demand

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• Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

  Wayne Dyer

  Limits, Accomplish

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.37, Hay House, Inc

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• Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

  Camille Paglia

  Overcoming, Males, Female

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.

  Sheldon Richman

  Distance, Believe, School

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• Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancient times understood that such physical acts and practices as rest and worship, dietary restrictions, and mandated fabric in their wardrobes were of great value to their faith and life.

  Doug Pagitt

  Practice, People, Fabric

  Doug Pagitt, Kathryn Prill (2013). “BodyPrayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Motivation, Self

  Brendon Burchard (2017). “High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way”, p.241, Hay House, Inc

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• Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

  Ai Weiwei

  Ties, Political, Limits

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Voting, North Carolina

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.

  David Roediger

  Keys, Color, Southern

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Go on a living spree. While you're here, why not live it up? Make your list, then go be, do, and have everything you want. Live life to the fullest. Live a life of no regrets. Strive toward your potential. NO restrictions apply. This offer is good for a limited time only. Don't miss this opportunity. Go on a living spree!

  Clifton Anderson

  Regret, Live Life, Opportunity

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• Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Crazy, Book, Athlete

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

  Mirah

  People, Resistance, Songwriting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Decision, Energy, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Rights, White Man

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

  Chip Kidd

  Thinking, Ideas, Goal

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn`t go after Trump that hard on. They had this difficult position where they were trying to knock Trump down while appealing to the voters who liked a lot of the outrageous things about Donald Trump.[Hillary] Clinton is giong to have no such restrictions. She`s going to attack him on a wide variety of fronts and I don`t think Trump is going to deal very well with being attacked in that way.

  Josh Barro

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The room is a special place. It's not "A room" it's THE room. It's a place where there is no restriction. If we title it "a room" it can be any room but it's THE room so it is a special place. We all have this place. It's like our little corner that you are comfortable with.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Special, Titles, Littles

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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