Constraints Quotes

197 Constraints quotes by 176 unique authors

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind… — Ayelet Waldman
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of… — Walt Whitman
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters. — Brigham Young
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions… — Geoff Mulgan
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different… — Henry David Thoreau
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,… — Paulo Coelho
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit — Mikhail Bulgakov
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching… — George Monbiot
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes… — Daniel J. Siegel
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like… — Erving Goffman
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be… — Edward de Bono
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal… — Roberto Bolano
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is… — Patricia Polacco
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises… — Homer
True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars,… — Kerstin Gier
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as… — Simone Weil
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. — Deborah Bull

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