When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.
With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
Style is the outcome of constraint.
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
Creativity comes from constraint.
Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on
There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.
Constraint inspires creativity
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Every event has a cause-that is. . . for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3. . . ) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence. . . . If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.
Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.
