Limits Quotes
2452 quotes by 1787 authors
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Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the…
— Olafur Eliasson
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
— Robert Smithson
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We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer…
— William McDonough
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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
— William S. Paley
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
— Bill Crawford
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When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed…
— Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
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If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our…
— Galen
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The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way…
— Charlie Munger
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More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute…
— Hyman Rickover
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
— Thomas Eakins
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Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE. One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can…
— Iris Chang
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
— Gabriele d'Annunzio
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are…
— R. Scott Bakker
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If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it…
— Albert J. Nock
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When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a…
— Dan Gable
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even…
— Carine Roitfeld
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
— David Graeber
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The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually…
— Saul Bass
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Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.
— Rose Bird
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