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Quotes About Constraint

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.
~ Tom Kitt
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
~ Willem de Kooning
I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
~ Joshua Prince-Ramus
It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.
~ Mohsin Hamid
My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
~ Gene Luen Yang
When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there's no better example than working within a genre in film. That's like the ultimate parameter.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
~ Sam Altman
His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.
~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
Automatic law corrodes our freedom
~ Philip K. Howard
Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom.
~ Philip K. Howard
Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative
~ Philip Norton
Det är just strukturen hos världens ekonomiska fält som utövar ett strukturellt tvång, vilket ger mekanismen ett sken av ödesbestämdhet.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
~ Pamela Anderson
I hate being barefoot.
~ Sara Sampaio
girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.
~ Jonathan Swift
One of the most melancholy results of political constraint is the spontaneous ferocity it develops among the oppressed.
~ Ève Curie
as for those of you who are complicit, it is not you that I want to destroy, but your shackles
~ Adam Mickiewicz
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
It was illegal in the Soviet Union to live anywhere except where you were registered, and it was difficult for anyone born in the Farm to change their registration and move to another place except by entering an urban profession or going to jail.
~ Piers Vitebsky
Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.
~ Poul Anderson
Özgürlüklerinin korunmas? için kral?n iyi niyetine güvenmek zorunda b?rak?ld?klar? ölçüde, özgür uyruklar olarak deÄŸil, tutsaklar olarak yaÅŸamaya mahkûm olacaklar...
~ Quentin Skinner
We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Restricting choices is not always a bad thing.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
~ Rabindranath Tagore