Quotes About Constraints

Their uptight concerns about what other people thought seemed like such a waste. Why had they been so careful and contained with their love?

The abundance of work presses hard on the smallness of time.

in art your limitations are also your strengths. What you're not good at, what you can't think of, even the mistakes you make all contribute to your personal style. To have no such constraints is to be shapeless, she said, and to have no voice. This dictum helped explain Kay's growing identity crisis.

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity.

His rules were unencumbered by my constraints—the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still

We don't have enough time to move fast

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

I think there are sometimes issues with - no matter where you put a conference, there's always going to be constraints on that. For example, sometimes students studying in the U.S. have trouble leaving the U.S. to go to a conference. So if you hold it outside the U.S. in a particular place, that sometimes creates complications.

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.

To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

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Be completely fearless. [...]Write without constraints, or worrying about who you represent, or whether you should represent anyone, or who your audience is, or what you can or can't do with a female character, or a black character, or someone of restricted growth, or someone who's hugely fat. You must write total confidence that the fiction is its own justification.

you must have carbon.23  Arsenic, boron, and silicon are the only other elements on which complex molecules can be based, but arsenic and boron are relatively rare and, where concentrated, poisonous to life, and silicon can hold together no more than about a hundred amino acids. Only carbon yields the chemical bonding stability and bonding complexity that life requires. Given the constraints of physics and chemistry, we now know that physical life must be carbon-based.