Quotes About Constraints

To belong to something — that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

Creeds, ideals, a woman, a profession – all are prisons and shackles.

Love, glory, and wealth are prisons.

Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what's natural. Whatever I've enjoyed in these vast fields I've enjoyed because I don't live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

If you're famous, you're not free.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman'. And we still get that. It's not helpful.

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

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 by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

You cannot do more with less.

he makes a strong case for the cultivation of nondual perception and a way of life that is free from constraints—mental, personal, and social. To attain perfect happiness and harmony in life, he says, you need not become a sage; it is sufficient to free your mind and flow along smoothly with the course of Tao.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Tan encadenados estamos a nuestro rol, en esta sociedad en la que vivimos a través de estereotipos. Como dice Elena en su ensayo de Pares e impares: hay un rol de hombre, otro de mujer. Uno de anciano, otro de joven. Lo hay de padre y de hijo, de mujer tradicional o liberada, de loco y de cuerdo, de triunfador y de vencido. Son todos personajes rígidos, vacíos, irreales: distorsionados reflejos de personas.

I have always resented imposed constraints, hated all the things people said one should and should not do. A woman shouldn't . . . A man wouldn't . . . People were always conjuring up a wall and telling you to stay on your side of it. More often than not, the wall was false, a cliché, an inherited and unexamined stock response to the world.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

It's just that when we were younger we were not free enough to live our lives the way we really were.