Top 324 Constraints Quotes & Sayings

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

I was just dying to get out of the constraints of television, and the constraints of the parts I'd been playing. I had taken a bunch of improv classes and was performing with The Groundlings. I wanted to get into more adult, risky stuff.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

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.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

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

Embrace your constraints.

Art chooses its constraints.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

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

It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.