Constraints Quotes

197 Constraints quotes by 176 unique authors

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be… — Thomas Sowell
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these… — A. Powell Davies
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. — Richard Eder
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. — Stephen Jay Gould
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. — Stephen Jay Gould
Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. — Andrew Greeley
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of… — Sloane Crosley
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. — Albert Einstein
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. — Arthur Erickson
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I… — Paul Farmer
You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on… — Tim Ferriss
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but… — Howard Nemerov
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon… — Roger von Oech
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed… — Steven Pinker
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. — Ronald Reagan
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,… — Jerry Saltz
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM… — Zadie Smith
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who… — Sonia Sotomayor
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. — Igor Stravinsky
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may… — Stanley Tucci
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. — John Updike
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive… — Raoul Vaneigem

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