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Constraints Quotes

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press

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

Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.15, Harper Collins

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

"Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. May 17, 2007.

Constraint inspires creativity

Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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

"Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

Style is the outcome of constraint.

"The Art of Writing". Book by Andre Maurois, 1960.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.300