I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.” — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards;… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I know that some of those plans [of the North Korea] could very well lead to a missile that might reach Hawaii,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational… — Judy Chu Copy Share Image
Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. — George Washington Copy Share Image
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components -… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image