All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, /…

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

— Richard Powers

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play…

— Nicolas Cage

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then…

— Michelle Alexander

Style is the outcome of constraint.

— Andre Maurois

Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...)…

— Ermanno Bencivenga

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

— Paul Shepard

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

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…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects…

— Bill Watterson

“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Constraint inspires creativity

— Biz Stone

“Creativity is what happens when a mind encounters an obstacle. It’s the human process of finding a way through, over, around, or beneath. No…

— Ben Orlin

Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers…

— Margaret Catley-Carlson