Limits Quotes
2452 quotes by 1765 authors
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
— Wendell Berry
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Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one…
— Leopold Stokowski
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Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
— Meher Baba
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Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
— Thomas Gray
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Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I…
— Gustave Courbet
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One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though…
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
— Viola Spolin
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Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the…
— Martin Seligman
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Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to…
— Alain Prost
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He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who…
— Chanakya
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An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no…
— Hans Haacke
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There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
— Roger McDonald
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We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise,…
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users…
— Vinton Cerf
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A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro…
— Joan Miro
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Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And…
— David Nabarro
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