Quotes About Constraint

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.

Sometimes I want to impersonate a fountain, but specific circumstances don't allow me to do it.

Some constraint is good for us; absolute freedom is not.

When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie.

Some things a man simply cannot do.

Factoring the constraint into its own method allows us to give it an intention-revealing name that makes the constraint explicit in our design. It is now a named thing we can discuss.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

With the money supply no longer constrained by the amount of gold held by the government, deflation stopped almost immediately.

to respond flexibly to economic developments without the constraint of an announced target.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

I don't get to go out but an hour a day.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

In order to produce it [an infinite series] we would need an infinitely long blackboard, an infinite supply of chalk, and an infinite length of time. We may be censured as too cruel for trying to crush so high a flight of the spirit by such a homely objection; but this is no answer.

The price of abundance is restraint.

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express myself the way I wanted to express myself. To me, that is torture. I mean if people out there that do love that then more love to them, but it just wasn't for me.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.