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Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art. -- Neil Gaiman
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. -- Andrea Dworkin
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. -- Jodi Picoult
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. -- David Byrne
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. -- Immanuel Kant
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. -- Sting
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. -- John von Neumann
If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. -- Bruce Tulgan
The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it. -- Jeff Cooper
My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness -- Narendra Modi
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended. -- John Cage
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' -- Enrico Fermi
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible. -- Condoleezza Rice
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day. -- Chuck Klosterman
Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete. -- Mark Rippetoe
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice. -- Pope Francis
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity. -- Philippe Starck
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted. -- Denise Mina
If some things aren't going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. -- Alan Perlis
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. -- Chuck Close
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director. -- Dominic Monaghan
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. -- Kristin Armstrong
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. -- Eliot Spitzer
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. -- Nicholas Sparks
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick. -- Kristin Armstrong
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. -- Carlos Castaneda
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
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. -- J. G. Ballard
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people. -- Shepard Fairey
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. -- Luc Ferrari
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. -- Jeremy Irons
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. -- Jeff Koons
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are. -- Lamar Alexander
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art. -- Jeff Koons
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why. -- Larry Page
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.' -- Ezekiel Emanuel
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. -- J. Tillman
I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?' and I wish there was an answer, because there's no ladder. There are no parameters. You've just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder. -- Terry Wogan
Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong. -- Andy Garcia
Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success. -- Jeremy Irons
It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters. -- David Sedaris
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production. -- Philippe Starck
Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. -- Anthony Giddens
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. -- Neil Gaiman
We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea. -- John Cameron
Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it. -- Robin Williams
With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love. -- David Jeremiah
I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters. -- Truddi Chase
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that donâ??t apply to you. -- Chuck Close
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. -- Andy Garcia
I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy -- Manuel Pellegrini
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. -- Bram Cohen
Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. -- David Allen
What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. -- Steve Maraboli
We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters. -- Narendra Modi
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. -- Andrew Bird
You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job. -- Ice Cube
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music. -- Grant Morrison
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters. -- Veerappa Moily
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline. -- Justin Broadrick
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters -- Julio Cortazar
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy. -- John P. Kotter
I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters -- David Sedaris
I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed. -- Waris Ahluwalia
To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining. -- Tom Althouse
It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish. -- Bette Midler
If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally. -- Barry Diller
A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials. -- Kevin Gutzman
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting. -- Mike Leigh
"¦Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. -- Jasper Fforde
The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. -- Ehud Olmert
Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life. -- Brian Wilson
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress. -- Narendra Modi
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But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself. -- Brad Warner

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