Quotes About Constraint

Throw him in jail.' What jail? The one he is in already, since he is there against his will; and if he is there against his will then he is imprisoned.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes to do only when he is not at work.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Qu'entendez-vous par : l'intelligence ? - En général ? - Oui. Ferral réfléchit. - La possession des moyens de contraindre les choses ou les hommes. Gisors sourit imperceptiblement. Chaque fois qu'il posait cette question, son interlocuteur, quel qu'il fût, répondait par le portrait de son désir, ou par l'image qu'il se faisait de lui-même.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside— she could never invent them.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Make a virtue of necessity.

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. —William Shakespeare

This physics constrains all projects to obey an unassailable trade-off called the Iron Cross of project management. Good, fast, cheap, done: Pick any three you like. You can't have the fourth.

When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.