Quotes About Constraints

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.

If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later – later is eternal, now is fleeting.

any mountain climber will tell you it's not about reaching the top: It's about the journey, overcoming doubts, bravely going into the unknown. It's about accepting your constraints without letting them overcome your goals.

Why is wrong spotting so easy? Because there's almost always something wrong—something the feedback giver is overlooking, shortchanging, or misunderstanding. About you, about the situation, about the constraints you're under. And givers compound the problem by delivering feedback that is vague, making it easy for us to overlook, shortchange, and misunderstand what they are saying. But in the end, wrong spotting not only defeats wrong feedback, it defeats learning.

Once you locked into language, all you could do was shuffle the greasy pack of a few thousand words that millions of people had used before.

The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Proscriptions carried too far lead to nullity.

In other words, Burt reported that the people were stuck with dumping their human waste out the windows because the available options were too technically demanding, or too expensive for people to agree to, or involved loss of money by established businesspeople who had influence with the government.

the chapter explains the three-cascading-constraints perspective by walking through, in sequence, the situation where all three constraints were binding (before 1820), the situation where only two were binding (up to 1990), and finally, today's situation where only one is binding.