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Quotes About Constraints

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.
~ Jeremy Irons
Head coaching options are limited.
~ Dan Gilbert
I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.
~ Justin Cartwright
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
~ Mark Twain
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
~ Geoffrey West
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
~ Kevin Kelly
When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.
~ Tom DeMarco
When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").
~ Unknown
Like all your fellow human beings, you are designed to be incapable of starting with a clean sheet of paper.
~ Unknown
Until you have re-invented yourself to be personally free from the constraints and limitations of your own past (including your own past success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change
~ Unknown
Oulipo does not "explain" poetry, Ouilpo tries to find constraints for new kinds of poems. Oulipo is not into theory, it is a place of creation.
~ Paul Fournel
Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.
~ Peggy Orenstein
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
~ Orson Welles
Though Mexico had constitutions in the nineteenth century, they put few constraints on what Iturbide, Santa Ana, and Díaz could do. These men could be removed from power only the same way they had attained it: by the use of force. D
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
The Communist economic institutions were in turn supported by extractive political institutions, concentrating all power in the hands of Communist parties and introducing no constraints on the exercise of this power. Though these were different extractive institutions in form, they had similar effects on the livelihoods of the people as the extractive institutions in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
the rulers were, in serious senses, whether willingly or unwillingly, the prisoners of their own rhetoric; they played games of power according to rules which suited them, but they could not break those rules or the whole game would be thrown away. Throwing
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life tries to impose." He stopped and regarded her. "Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?
~ Winston Graham
A Nampara, nonostante tutti i vincoli che doveva rispettare, era libera; e lavorava insieme a persone cui si era affezionata e per un uomo che adorava.
~ Winston Graham
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
~ Chuck Hagel
None of us are free to follow our hearts,"she said. "Not really. Is that what you're saying?" He shook his head. "No one can stop you from loving someone," he said.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Men must know their limitations.
~ Clint Eastwood
Every single one of our acts is ruled by the laws of economy.
~ Unknown
The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more gross and simplistic: the Revolution is always flexible, subtle, elegant.
~ Hilary Mantel
como le dijo una vez el rey con tristeza, sólo los hombres y mujeres muy pobres tienen libertad para elegir a quién amar.
~ Hilary Mantel