Quotes About Constraint

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

But nothing external to God can possibly constrain him. If he chooses to restore a broken universe, it is because he "wants" to, because, for example, he loves it and wants the best for it. But he is free to do as he wills, and his character (Who He Is) controls his will.

Everyone Wants to Be as Free as a Bird, but None is so Freely

As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

You only have till Friday," Yoko pointed out. That

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

Raccontare è quasi sempre un regalo, compreso quando porta e inietta veleno il racconto è anche un vincolo e un concedere fiducia e rara è la fiducia che prima o poi non si tradisca, raro il vincolo che non si aggrovigli o non si annodi, e perciò finisca per stringere e si debba tirare di coltello e di lama per reciderlo.

This is important to me, I want to find a time to talk about it, and right now I'm not able to.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.

Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!