We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.
Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
Too many rules will stifle innovation.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.
Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.
The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.
