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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. -- John Updike
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. -- Confucius
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters. -- Brigham Young
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -- Ronald Reagan
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
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. -- Paul Farmer
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. -- Howard Nemerov
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. -- Andrew Greeley
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one -- Igor Stravinsky
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. -- Robert Delaunay
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. -- Peter Matthiessen
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. -- Sophocles
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. -- Stanley Smith Stevens
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. -- Naomi Wolf
Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them. -- Tom Kelley
Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything. -- Jack Dorsey
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. -- Chuck Hagel
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
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. -- Denis Johnson
I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity. -- Biz Stone
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 believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires. -- Ron Kind
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems. -- Bill Lipinski
Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens. -- Stephen LaBerge
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law. -- Herman Melville
Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity. -- Martin Villeneuve
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. -- Arthur Erickson
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. -- Michael Shermer
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. -- Pratibha Patil
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. -- Jeff Bezos
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that. -- Demetri Martin
My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich. -- Arsene Wenger
The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life. -- Nicolas Cage
A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran. -- Joe Biden
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom. -- Sloane Crosley
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net. -- Steven Pinker
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. -- Jerry Saltz
You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people. -- Timothy Ferriss
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology. -- Jill Lepore
The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world. -- Ken Goldberg
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. -- Zadie Smith
Embrace your constraints. -- Biz Stone
Art chooses its constraints. -- Mason Cooley
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. -- Joanna Lumley
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints. -- Paul Laseau
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages. -- Aza Raskin
African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. -- Mo Ibrahim
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color. -- Kazimir Malevich
As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality. -- Sarah Cross
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver. -- Damon Lindelof
With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints. -- H. A. Berlin
See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way. -- Alastair Humphreys
I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum. -- Hank Green
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. -- Deborah Bull
Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time. -- Gary Becker
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design. -- Ellen Lupton
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. -- Jonah Lehrer
...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. -- Jonah Lehrer
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. -- Nic Pizzolatto
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. -- David Mitchell
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something. -- Charles Gwathmey
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. -- Russell L. Ackoff
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. -- David Byrne
The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. -- Marilynne Robinson
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. -- Toyo Ito
Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems. -- Duncan Green
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. -- Marvin Minsky
I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. -- Chris Matakas
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. -- Charlie Waite
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. -- Ted Shackelford
Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly. -- Julian Assange
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism. -- John W. Gardner
Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand. -- Toba Beta
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful. -- Ian Bogost
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. -- Raoul Vaneigem
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. -- Niklaus Wirth
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in. -- Mason Cooley
I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write. -- Liza Campbell
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. -- Allan Bloom
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better, -- Biz Stone
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. -- Paul Shepard
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition. -- Mary Parker Follett
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. -- Timothy Keller
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world. -- Ian Bogost
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. -- Abraham Maslow
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community. -- Dale Jamieson
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something. -- David Lynch
The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. -- Steve McCurry
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. -- Richard Eder
This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness. -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone. -- Lily James
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. -- Edgar Schein
Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results. -- Albert Bandura
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines. -- Thomas Metzinger
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics. -- Bryan Stevenson
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters. -- Iain Banks
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually. -- Ayelet Waldman
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints. -- Karl E. Weick
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. -- Thomas Sowell
Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity. -- Andy Murray
We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity. -- Chris Cuomo
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles. -- Austin Butler
Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used. -- Noam Chomsky
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints. -- Jimenez Lai

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