Quotes About Constraint

Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.

The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle!

Anytime somebody goes two days without reporting a constraint, you can bet there's a bigger problem lurking. Busy, productive people who are doing anything of consequence get stuck pretty regularly. The only people who don't get stuck are those who aren't doing anything or are so stuck that don't know it!! So, challenge the team member who reports, "Everything is fine!

be asphyxiated.

He was—as always—trapped by the flypaper of good manners.

Alas. I am not an option.

Who can chart the vastness of Incarceron? Its halls viaducts, its chasms? Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

C'est uniquement si tu maintiens les apparences que tu peux faire ce que tu veux.

If the artists are so rich," replied Charlotte, "then tell me how it is that they are never able to escape from little obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns for ashes? Instead of your thousand forms of which you boast, I have never seen anything but a thousand repetitions.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.

a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.

It was language, which tyrannizes us all

Listen, I know it's very difficult to go below $36,000. I know you are doing the best you can here. But the most I can afford is $32,157.

The most constrained resource in your company is your time.

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

No matter how big a hen's hut is, it must bow to enter

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.