Quotes with limits

  • In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
  • The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
  • All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
  • Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
  • The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
  • I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
  • The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
  • If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever limits us we call fate.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Robbins Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert Collier All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Alan Cohen All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Andre Norton Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • James A. Froude As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Abel Ferrara But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Beau Bridges Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Economy is based on the principle that all wealth has its limits.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Nolan Ryan Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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