Quotes About Constraint

I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.

paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.

What it really means is that the general must understand that he is not a free agent and cannot hope to become one. He has to work within the limitations imposed by the fact that he is working for a democracy, which means that at times he must modify or abandon the soundest military plan and make do with a second-best.

Chains...They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

Inside. Outside. Freedom and constraint. Earthbound. Airborne. What we see and what is reflected back can imprison us. Refraction. Do we ever see anything clearly without our own reflection getting in the way?

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style.

Something I've learned is that when you don't have many resources, you have to be even more rigorous with your style. Limitations are style if you make them so.

Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I really wanted to do. The future is forbidden to no one. Unless we forbid it ourselves.

Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]

The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

may not be able

Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.