Top 151 Constraint Quotes & Sayings

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

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

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is a constraint. That the titles have to begin with "I'"s is a relatively strict constraint. Charm of the Highway Strip is all travel songs. And I am free to change the plot slightly to accommodate something that happens to rhyme conveniently.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Style is the outcome of constraint.

I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

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

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.

Constraint inspires creativity

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Creativity comes from constraint.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

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

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.

Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

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.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.