Limits Quotes
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Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.
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The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
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Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.
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Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
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The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.
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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are 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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If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
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The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
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As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
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Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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Life without limbs? Or life without limits?
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The only limit to success is your own imagination.
