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Constraint inspires creativity -- Biz Stone
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking. -- George Friedman
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. -- Robert Delaunay
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. -- Sophocles
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. -- Peter Matthiessen
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. -- Martin Yan
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. -- Ma Jian
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. -- William J. Clinton
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive. -- Hod Lipson
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. -- Igor Stravinsky
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. -- Walt Whitman
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. -- Richard Powers
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. -- Matt Mullenweg
If you don't have a healthy workforce, you can't develop economically. And if you don't have a well-educated and healthy workforce, that is a huge constraint on your development. -- Bruce Wilkinson
I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints. -- Sam Altman
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint. -- Marie de France
I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform. -- Alan Greenspan
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. -- Chuck Hagel
The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader. -- Satpal Maharaj
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. -- Orison Swett Marden
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook. -- Matt Mullenweg
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech. -- James L. Buckley
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. -- Rachel Cusk
And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. -- Ginni Rometty
Creativity comes from constraint. -- Biz Stone
Style is the outcome of constraint. -- Andre Maurois
The most fundamental constraint is limited time -- Gary Becker
A wise man does nothing by constraint. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit -- Mikhail Bulgakov
An artist must not feel under any constraint. -- Henri Matisse
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. -- Michelangelo
Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly. -- Robert Bringhurst
Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision. -- Marissa Mayer
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. -- William Cowper
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. -- Jean Giraudoux
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. -- Andre Gide
Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time. -- Gary Becker
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. -- Brian Eno
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. -- Aleister Crowley
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget. -- Baz Luhrmann
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. -- Albert Camus
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." -- Alexander Hamilton
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? -- Seneca the Younger
With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint. -- Michael Ian Black
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. -- Seneca the Younger
It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell." -- Erving Goffman
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell. -- Erving Goffman
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint. -- Henri Matisse
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. -- Russell M. Nelson
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. -- Michel de Montaigne
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it. -- Allen W. Wood
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens. -- John McGahern
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation. -- Donald E. Westlake
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain? -- Glenn Greenwald
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it. -- Michael Lewis
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say. -- Catherine Brady

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