Constraints Quotes

• Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Energy
  • Creative
  • Certain

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

  

  Charles Gwathmey
  • Work
  • Important
  • Positive

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

  

  H. A. Berlin
  • Practice
  • Constraints
  • Being The Best

• Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Art
  • Ideas
  • Paint

• For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Liberty
  • Contemporary
  • Interfere

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

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Lays

• Modern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Society
  • Interests
  • Strangers

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

  

  Alastair Humphreys
  • Opportunities
  • Adventures
  • Constraints

• The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Worry

• Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Advantages
  • Turning
  • Constraints

• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Tragedy
  • Loneliness
  • Destructive

• Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Men
  • Faces
  • Social

• Performance constraints are good for creativity.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Creativity
  • Performance
  • Constraints

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

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Suffering
  • Matter
  • Constraints

• I still claim that there are only few constraints. Our division is too complex to have more than a very few independent chains. Lou, don’t you realize that everything we mentioned so far is closely connected? The lack of sensible long-term strategy, the measurement issues, the lag in product design, the long lead times in production, the general attitude of passing the ball, of apathy, are all connected. We must put our finger on the core problem, on the root that causes them all. That is what actually is meant by identify the constraint. It’s not prioritizing the bad effects, it’s identifying what causes them all.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Problem
  • Issues
  • Strategy

• 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
  • Choices
  • Social
  • Degrees

• Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Life
  • Change
  • Constraints

• The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Society
  • Social
  • Civilization

• 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.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Habit

• With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Constraints