Quotes About Constraints

C'erano così tante leggi e, poco ma sicuro, almeno un miliardo di modi in cui le si poteva infrangere.

Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

Nobody is ever really free, Gary. As long as you live with another human being, you're not free.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Unfortunately, when choosing how to live or move, most of us are not as free as we think. Our options are strikingly limited, and they are defined by the planners, engineers, politicians, architects, marketers, and land speculators who imprint their own values on the urban landscape.

Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

A work force empowered to learn and innovate must be the backbone of a strategy to create flexibility by removing constraints.

El mercado libre no existe. Todos los mercados tienen reglas y límites que acotan la libertad de elección. Si un mercado parece libre, solo es porque aceptamos tan incondicionalmente sus restricciones de base que ya no las vemos. No se puede definir con objetividad lo «libre» que es un mercado.

If the dollars you lose in taxes are important to you, then what about the dollars you may be spending to perpetuate boxes you could get out of?