Limits Quotes

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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his… — William Shenstone
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games. — Juvenal
Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution,… — George Washington
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and,… — Tom Peters
The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and… — Alfred Adler
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of… — Alfred Adler
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. — John Steinbeck
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. — Thomas Gray
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
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
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
First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation. — Viola Spolin
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
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
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
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
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
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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