Limits Quotes
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You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
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So I’ve got limits on how fast I can go—both my own (I can only go so fast for so long before I fall over and pant to death) and those of the others on the hike. However, there is no limit on my ability to slow down. Or on anyone else’s ability to slow down. Or stop. And if any of us did, the line would extend indefinitely. What’s happening isn’t an averaging out of the fluctuations in our various speeds, but an accumulation of the fluctuations. And mostly it’s an accumulation of slowness—because dependency limits the opportunities for higher fluctuations. And that’s why the line is spreading. We can make the line shrink only by having everyone in the back of the line move much faster than Ron’s average over some distance.
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The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.
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I don't know where the limits of her range are. I certainly didn't find them.
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In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
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What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.
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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.
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I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting. She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn't afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings. She deserved Nino, in other words, because she thought that to love him meant to try to have him, not hope that he would want her.
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Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.
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What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.
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We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
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Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.
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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !
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Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.
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Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
