#stifle

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#because #free #i #i love #love

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gloomy #go #grief #him #himself

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#bit #hand #off #other #own

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#became #been #character #fond #give

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#control #debate #doing #federal #federal government

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#develop #developed #engine #environment #get

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. ↗

— Ice Cube

#bit #easy #evolving #got #hate