Limitations Quotes
752 Limitations quotes by 590 unique authors
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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment…
— Raymond Chandler
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Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.
— Joseph Brodsky
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The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning…
— Neil Postman
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
— Ralph Merkle
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I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
— Jessye Norman
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I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.
— Danny Pudi
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The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections…
— Thomas DiLorenzo
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It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not…
— Christopher Lambert
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a…
— Manuel Puig
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The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to…
— Frederick Lenz
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.…
— Garth Stein
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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and…
— Frank J. Tipler
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As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled…
— Chely Wright
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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background,…
— Walter Jon Williams
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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
— John Yoo
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is…
— Frederick Lenz
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The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about…
— Frederick Lenz
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The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly…
— Criss Jami
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
— Anthony Mackie
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There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep…
— Dawna Markova
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