Bill Bonner Quotes

Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Bill Bonner

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• Ruin

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Cricket

• I don't put myself under pressure.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Myself
  • Pressure
  • Put

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Think
  • Know
  • Pressure

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Limits

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • War
  • Pressure
  • Weapons

• I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

  

  Adam Faith
  • True
  • Dream
  • Blue

• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Money
  • Know
  • Movies

• The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Real
  • Games
  • Pressure

• With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Image

• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Pressure

• I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Eye
  • Limits
  • Mines

• Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

  

  Anthony de Jasay
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Mistrust

• When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • People
  • Looks
  • Cycles

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Pressure
  • Limits
  • Ruin