Top 216 Constrained Quotes & Sayings

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room - Bashar al-Assad.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.