Quotes About Constraints

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Persistence at a poorly defined problem is futile, and talent applied to an unsolvable problem is worthless. The challenge is knowing how to define problems with enough constraints to help creativity, but not so many that creativity, or any solution, is impossible. Mastering this skill is one secret that explains who successfully makes things and who doesn't.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

Unfortunately, I don't have much free time

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Space, time and context all impose limits on what is possible.

Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone. Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again, I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be. We

Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone.

Physics. Some say this science is fundamental; I say it's a bunch of unnecessary regulations. Physics is the ultimate Big Government interference—universal laws meant to constrain us at every turn.

I don't think we should be unafraid not to discuss the gay dialectic as an energy and the homophobic constraints that endorse its marginalisation as a functionally reactive discourse.

Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.

Unlimited knowledge, limited time.

In the equation of life, the limit does not exist.

words 'organized games' held the same appeal to me as the words 'compulsory smear test'.

Instead of limiting your imagination by current circumstances and constraints, imagine a world in which some key constraints don't exist, and ask yourself how you or your institution might respond.

I was beginning to understand that the best kinds of freedom involved choosing your constraints wisely, and claiming them as your own.

If the obligations of friendship are constraints, then I am so constrained.