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• 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

  Entrepreneur, Negative, Prohibition

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• I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Past, Arbitrary

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• 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

  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

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• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

  Jimmy Bertrand

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• 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

  Structure, Figures, Multiple

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sovereign, Determined, Pleasure

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “The Attribute to God”, p.2, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Effort, Tasks

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• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Mean, Tv News

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Running, Discipline, Swim

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• ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Space, Personality, Humanity

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• 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

  Writing, Creative, Challenges

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• For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.

  Dorothee Solle

  Independent, Pride, Acting

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Political, Groups

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• One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

  Andrew Mason

  Religious, Attachment, Challenges

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• As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

  David Mitchell

  Long, Way, Originality

  "David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. March 30, 2008.

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• Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Destiny, Men, Choices

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.863, Pan Macmillan

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• Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Inquiry, Done, Research

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• The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Believe, Facts, Faces

  "Trust Me on This". Book by Donald E. Westlake, 1988.

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• If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Running, Business, Organization

  "Good to Great". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2001.

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