Constraints Quotes

197 Constraints quotes by 176 unique authors

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the… — Edgar Schein
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. — Timothy Keller
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,… — Francois Fenelon
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay… — Henry David Thoreau
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. — Sophocles
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one — Igor Stravinsky
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited… — Ted Nelson
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in… — Daniel Pipes
The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up.… — Frederick Lenz
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of… — Gregg Easterbrook
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such… — Marie de France
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally… — Karl E. Weick
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language… — Harry Mathews
There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on… — Emilio Estevez
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal… — Alasdair MacIntyre
We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't… — Chris Cuomo
London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer… — Alexa Chung
The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much… — Jose Padilha
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide
The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints. — Mitchell Hurwitz
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. — William Cowper
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell

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