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Quotes About Constraints

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
~ Ken Hensley
The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior.
~ Mark Epstein
The Parthenon is a pleasing building, and Mozart's Fifth Piano Concerto a pleasing work, because each makes use of proportions, relations, and variations that go beyond subjective preference, education, and culture into the realm of universal appeal conditioned by universal human requirements and constraints. A life lived with these understood, even if vaguely, will have the grace that a life lived unaware of them will lack.
~ Mark Helprin
In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
~ Anthony Powell
Freedom is not a constitution, or the day it is declared, it's a long process and all of us, each one of us removing the constraints that keep us unfree.
~ Ari Sitas
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
~ James Frey
It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints
~ Gyan Nagpal
There is a hypothetical maximization of income, constrained by individuals and of cost constrained profits of firms. Keynesean
~ John Roth
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
~ John Updike
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
~ Ellen Lupton
Tot ceea ce iese din cadrele acceptate ale vie?ii de fiecare zi se ipostaziaz?, deoarece umanul are grani?e care exclud neobi?nuitul.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Ora, uma vez que abrimos a porta para as exceções, é difícil fechá-la.
~ Émile Durkheim
Patanjali's method for achieving insight is far from the mystical ecstasy of a poet like St. John of the Cross or the ritual ecstasy of a shaman in a trance. It is instead a contemplative intensity that unbinds the constraints of everyday experience.
~ Barbara Stoler Miller
Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
~ Beck
I don't get a big recording budget or much promotion, but I have creative freedom.
~ Allan Holdsworth
Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.
~ Vincent Tan
There are limits to my time. There are limits to my strength.
~ George S. Clason
American courts are not all-powerful institutions. They were designed with severe limitations and placed in a political system of divided powers. To ask them to produce significant social reform is to forget their history and ignore their constraints. It is to cloud our vision with a naive and romantic belief in the triumph of rights over politics. And while romance and even naivete have their charms, they are not best exhibited in courtrooms.
~ Gerald N. Rosenberg
From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.
~ Ed Davey
We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.
~ Dean Devlin
When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
~ George A. Romero
I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.
~ Lily James
I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.
~ Helen Mirren