Quotes About Constraint

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed that uncomfortable partition which is my person!

È libertà completa quella di poter fare ciò che si vuole a patto di fare anche qualche cosa che piaccia meno. La vera schiavitù è la condanna all'astensione: Tantalo e non Ercole.

Microinteractions are an exercise in restraint, in doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Embrace the constraints and focus your attention on doing one thing well. Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

A villain let your creativity out of its cage.

But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

Forcing functions are a form of physical constraint: situations in which the actions are constrained so that failure at one stage prevents the next step from happening. Starting a car has a forcing function associated with it—the driver must have some physical object that signifies permission to use the car. In

he and the count seemed to work among the same people, he at least had the consolation of being able to arrest them, whereas the count was constrained to invite them to dinner.

Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature—fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.

If you try to make the limited unlimited, you will suffer.

el amor se diferencia del arte en que el arte es libre y el amor sólo lo parece. el arte lo lleva uno consigo, y puede ir con el a donde quiera. Pero el amor no es transportable, el amor ata, y ése es un nudo que no hay quien lo deshaga.

What numbers us imprisons us.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.