Quotes of: Constraints Keyword

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

In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.

Gerald L. Clore

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Gong Li

The Christian right, which trumpets the theme of family values, damns contemporary culture for undermining older traditions. Yet many individuals from this camp are not concerned first and foremost about family values per se. Family is a codeword for...

In Praise of Commercial Culture

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 ...

Steven Pinker

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

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: 'Wh...

Ruchi Sanghvi

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physica...

Aldous Huxley

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Andrew Greeley

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

Hank Green

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Sophocles

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Martin Yan

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Ted Shackelford

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Stanley Smith Stevens

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson