Quotes About Constraint

My range is limited.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.

Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it even with the best right but without inner constraint proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring to the point of recklessness.

La mera posibilidad no es todavía una libertad.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

The only way to make me stand in line for half an hour to buy a spool of thread, or to make me spend six weeks in getting stamps on paper when I want to drive a car, is to use the energy of persons who otherwise would be making more thread and more cars.

I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I

When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?

bir müddet daha dü?ününce dünyada da hiçbir yere ba?l? olmad???n? hissetti ve içten içe bu kadar yabanc? oldu?u bu hayatta kendisini birçok kay?tlar?n ku?atmas?na, ondan, istedi?i gibi bir hareket imkanlar?n? almas?na müthi? içerledi.

Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

The only problem is time.

There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.

Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Cut my coat after my cloth.

Hay muchas formas de tener a una persona encerrada. Piénsalo. Pero la mejor no tiene nada que ver con fármacos o cerrojos: aquí casi nadie tiene adónde ir. Si no tienes eso, no te vas. Es así de simple.