#constraint

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

— Peter Matthiessen

#limitation #nonfiction #telling #telling the truth #truth

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

#arrange #constraint #design #dullness #each

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

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#constraints #freedom #memory #dreams

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

— Sophocles

#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#felt #i #never #social

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

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage. ↗

— 37 Signals

#constraints #management #business

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. ↗

— David Byrne

#constraints #intended #only #software #them