Quotes About Constraint

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

In describing the causes of poverty, Muhammad Yunus has often compared a poor person to a bonsai tree. The seed of a bonsai has the potential to grow into a full-size tree, but, planted in a tiny pot, its growth is stunted. To Yunus, a person deprived of education or opportunity is like a bonsai. The constraint isn't the seed, it's the pot.

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Obedience allows God's blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.