Quotes About Constraints

Effective design needs to satisfy a large number of constraints and concerns, including shape and form, cost and efficiency, reliability and effectiveness, understandability and usability, the pleasure of the appearance, the pride of ownership, and the joy of actual use. HCD is a procedure for addressing these requirements, but with an emphasis on two things: solving the right problem, and doing so in a way that meets human needs and capabilities.

President Trump's eyes light up when strongmen steamroll opposition, brush aside legal constraints, ignore criticism, and do whatever it takes to get their way.

Earlier, I cited Oswald Spengler's chilling century-old prophecy that "the era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them." This is the real danger posed by Putin: that he will be a model for other national leaders who want to retain their grip on power indefinitely, despite political and legal constraints.

That's the thing about being free spirited. Rules cripple you into absolute, abysmal pit of misery.

By autumn 2015, those who remained around Trump were rarely constraints on his behavior, and sometimes served to abet his worst instincts.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

I knew that I had to free myself from any constraints that would prevent the pursuit of these dreams.

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to 'think out of the box' and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely wrong. It is very difficult to be creative when 'anything goes' and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity.

In spite of what many teachers of 'creative thinking' say, the best way to be creative is not to try to think without limits but to very carefully define what those limits should be.

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.