Kate Atkinson

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

English Author

Herbert A. Simon

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

American Economist

Alexandra Fuller

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

American Physicist

Joanna Lumley

As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

English Actress

Todd Haynes

My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.

American Director

Tony Robinson

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

English Actor

will.i.am

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

American Musician

Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Austrian Writer

Daria Werbowy

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

Ukrainian Model

Use with care since 'straitjacket' can be sensitive due to its past psychiatric use.

Mental Health Sensitivity

The concept of a straitjacket can be used metaphorically to express extreme restriction.

Metaphorically Applied

Understanding its historical use as a restraint can add depth to modern uses of the term.

Historical Reference

Often used to signify impositions that limit freedom or options in various scenarios.

Figurative Language

The term usually implies a lack of freedom or choice, suggesting a negative impact.

Negative Connotation

Implies frustration or discomfort, reflecting how someone might feel under tight constraints.

Emotional Impact

 doing six months ago you're doing the wrong thing parents can learn a lot from that but to me adapt all the time means something deeper too we have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help

Agile programming -- for...

 We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas

Bruce Feiler: Agile...

 till the lady go than not you're okay go and then they walked us down to the taxi paid the guy and walked off and that was the last time we've seen them it feels like a straitjacket to be honest with you you can't get out of it but it's

Straitjacket