Quotes About Constraints

Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

I love hordes. They screen out free choice; you're free at last: stuck. Our

In other words, path dependence means that the institutions and arrangements created before—often created haphazardly or as an expedient—now constrain and shape the changes that are possible today.

Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.

The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time.

Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, published in 1984. The book, cloaked in the guise of an entertaining novel, instructs manufacturers to focus on maximizing the efficiency of their biggest bottlenecks.

Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, published in 1984.

Written reports stifle creativity.

When you're with WWE, you are operating within very fine boundaries that you cannot step outside of.

In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.

Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

Oh, that, certainly, but not only that," said Margaret. "Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across within a week of his arrival in America, the cheap conventions, the low expectations among publishers, readers, parents, and educators, the spatial constraints that he had been struggling against in the pages of Luna Moth, seemed capable of being completely overcome, exceeded, and escaped. The Amazing Cavalieri was going to break free, forever, of the nine little boxes.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

Time is a zero-sum game, a limited resource. Life is too short to do only what we have to do; it is barely long enough to do what we want to do.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.

Scientists accustomed to working with limited resources and virtually no deadlines now had to adjust to a world of unlimited resources and exacting deadlines.

Doing five-minute sets on 'Conan' and things like that are fun and a great way to introduce yourself, but it's such a constricting time, and you usually have to cut bits down.

At times, it is hard to say no to a film, but that happens, because you can't do a film due to date issues.

The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.