#strain

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

— Robert Evans

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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade? ↗

— Bill Maher

#burglar #him #home #into #restraint

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#deserve #die #front #going #hell

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #begin #dry #eyes #fail

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

— David Byrne

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

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