Quotes About Constraints

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Creía que la historia de nuestra vida es nuestra para edificarla como deseemos, dentro de las restricciones impuestas por el mundo real e incluso contra ellas

No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

We live in a world that worships limitations

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I'm well aware that there can be genuine constraints that affect the speed at which certain issues progress.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

They'd never take the standardized tests that they were prepping for. In a way, Amelia had said, this had led to a kind of renaissance in pedagogy. Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be. The tick-tock curriculum had dissolved and been replaced by activities improvised from day to day by teachers and parents:

there could be no planning because no one had time for it

United States failed to match its greatly enhanced economic importance with a commensurate geopolitical role.84 Power remained disproportionately in the hands of the victorious European empires, the British and the French, but both were so constrained fiscally and domestically that they could not preserve the fruits of their victory.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

Men must know their limitations.

There are constraints on freedom, but only to the extent that different individuals' freedoms come into conflict. It is the responsibility of the state to moderate those conflicts equitably.

Atados a las responsabilidades de ser hijos, hermanos y padres, los hombres no eran libres.

Adopting a remote, managerial point of view, you could say that the Eagle project was a case where a local system of management worked as it should: competition for resources creating within a team inside a company an entrepreneurial spirit, which was channeled in the right direction by constraints sent down from the top. But it seems more accurate to say that a group of engineers got excited about building a computer.

It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely.