Limits Quotes

• He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Team
  • Player
  • Role

• While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

  

  Craig Kelly
  • Simple
  • Progress
  • Appreciation

• Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

  

  Uell Stanley Andersen
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Causes

• When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Rest

• There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat

  

  Algis Budrys
  • People
  • Limits
  • Bring

• My religion has no geographical limits.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Limits
  • Geographical

• The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Slave
  • Infinite

• To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Science

• The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Blood

• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Person
  • Breathe

• The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Writing
  • Possibility
  • Disaster

• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Atheism

• I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Capitalism
  • Needed
  • Karma

• Respect for one’s government and the expected obligations of citizenship have limits (though as a modern Western reader I am probably overly inclined to emphasize this qualification). Paul cooperated with the Jerusalem church’s identification with their culture (which was also his culture, Acts 21:20–26), but not to the extent of honoring such nationalism above his commitment to the Gentile mission (Acts 22:21–22). When Christians are more loyal to our ethnicity or nation than to Christ’s body, when nationalism or racism corrupts our love for fellow believers, we have gone beyond giving Caesar what is Caesar’s to giving Caesar what is God’s.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Christians

• A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Able
  • Skills
  • Masters

• It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Player
  • League
  • Association

• We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

  

  Roberto Azevedo
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Limits

• Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Meditation
  • Musical
  • Philosopher

• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

  

  William P. Young
  • Children
  • Color
  • Honor

• If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Limits
  • Driver
  • Come Up

• I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Patience
  • Syria

• Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

  

  Wu Guanzhong
  • Order
  • Break
  • Thread

• I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Expression
  • Determined

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