Emma Watson Quotes

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

I don't like closed systems.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

My cage has many rooms.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

restrictions create frustrations!

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don't bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.