28 Quotes About Constraints

Creativity is what happens when a mind encounters an obstacle. It’s the human process of finding a way through, over, around, or beneath. No obstacle, no creativity.

If you ditch the rulebook, you lose the grace. Even the wacky, avant-garde, convention-defying arts—experimental film, expressionist painting, professional wrestling—draw their power from playing against the limitations of the chosen medium.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Il ne s'agit pas de choisit son époque, mais de se choisir en elle.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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?

When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints