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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. -- Cameron Mackintosh
Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention. -- Cameron Mackintosh
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free. -- John Denver
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. -- Hanna Rosin
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. -- Grandmaster Flash
But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be. -- Emma Watson
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. -- Steve Bisley
It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win. -- Simon Sinek
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. -- Lynn Abbey
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. -- Buzz Aldrin
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. -- Jonathan Edwards
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. -- Tom Wolfe
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. -- Irving Babbitt
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.' -- Gail Collins
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. -- Brian Eno
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. -- N. T. Wright
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men. -- Ayelet Waldman
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. -- Julian Assange
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. -- Natan Sharansky
Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers. -- Raymond E. Feist
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear. -- Chip Conley
Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! -- Sylvester McCoy
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols. -- Brian Greene
There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did. -- Suzi Quatro
Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does. -- Robert Smith
Creativity thrives best when constrained. -- Marissa Mayer
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained. -- Joanne Harris
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. -- Elizabeth I
We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination -- David Moffett
Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination. -- C. K. Prahalad
We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past. -- Bob Odenkirk
This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained. -- J. V. Cunningham
I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. -- Roger Williams
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Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it. -- Tony Fadell
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being. -- Caitlin Moran
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. -- Anton Chekhov
A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others. -- Steven Pinker
Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings. -- Jane Chen
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. -- Josephus
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. -- Mark Twain
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. -- Immanuel Kant
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone. -- Lawrence Fagg
We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it. -- Orrin Hatch
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. -- David Frum
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. -- Pythagoras
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility. -- Marianne Williamson
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. -- Francois Fenelon
Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order. -- Susan McClary
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. -- Noam Chomsky
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved. -- David Deida
Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron -- Rick Riordan
This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt. -- Hillary Clinton
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order. -- Charles Spurgeon
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever. -- Mary McGrory
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. -- Stephen Jay Gould
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles. -- Harold E. Puthoff
Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation. -- Scott D. Anthony
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. -- Michael Shermer
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God. -- Oswald Chambers
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil. -- Claude Mandil
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. -- Woodrow Wilson
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 -- Jonathan Edwards
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences. -- Norman Doidge
In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously -- David Miliband
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things. -- J. B. Pritzker
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. -- Noam Chomsky
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. -- James Bovard
One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained. -- Joseph Stiglitz
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. -- Mary Robinson
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. -- Blaise Pascal
In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic. -- Paul Davies
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument. -- Sam Harris
When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, Â´there is no godÂ´. -- John Burroughs
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her. -- Leonardo da Vinci
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. -- William Cowper
People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world. -- Peter Kuznick
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead. -- Andrew Jackson
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. -- Steven Pinker
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes". -- Philip Kitcher
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. -- Phil Klay
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization. -- Chellie Pingree
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. -- Walter Raleigh
Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work. -- Giorgio Armani
I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour. -- Tom Riley

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