Constraints Quotes

197 Constraints quotes by 176 unique authors

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies… — Alfie Kohn
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition. — Mary Parker Follett
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism. — John W. Gardner
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround… — Igor Stravinsky
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. — Brian Eno
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather,… — Terence McKenna
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. — Abraham Maslow
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same… — David Allen
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new… — Seraphim of Sarov
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an… — Gregory Palamas
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been… — Barack Obama
See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way. — Alastair Humphreys
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system… — Bill Lipinski
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. — Peter Matthiessen
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? — Seneca the Younger
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research… — Ron Kind
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. — Chuck Hagel
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a… — Matt Mullenweg
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of… — Hermann Weyl
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. — Paul Shepard
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. — Denis Johnson
Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision. — Marissa Mayer
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. — Leonardo da Vinci

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