Constraints Quotes

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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent… — Jeff Bezos
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne
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 it… — Nicolas Cage
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. — William J. Clinton
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. — William J. Clinton
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal… — Seneca the Younger
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. — Jean Giraudoux
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… — Henri Matisse
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. — Michelangelo
An artist must not feel under any constraint. — Henri Matisse
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -… — Clay Shirky
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color. — Kazimir Malevich
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that… — Margaret J. Wheatley
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. — Charlie Waite

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