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• Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Relationship, Disappointment, Grateful

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• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Mind, Vision

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• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  W. G. Sebald

  Writing, Giving, Patterns

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• When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

  Mark Stevenson

  Exercise, Renaissance, Damage

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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, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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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 and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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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 the limitations of human nature and [find] safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Men, Safety

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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 our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.

  Dawna Markova

  Interesting, Toxic, Stories

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Overcoming

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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 see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Thinking

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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 intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Intelligent, People, Understanding

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• When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

  Rachael Taylor

  Cutting, Finals, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

  Chely Wright

  Girl, Gay, Age

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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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, which is usually the hardest part.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Writing, Character, World

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• In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Hands, Order

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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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 waiting for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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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 it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Should

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• There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

  Anthony Mackie

  Black, Actors, Young

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Real, Perfectly Natural

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• The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

  Momofuku Ando

  Believe, Humanity, Desire

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• It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Shame, Critics

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• Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Past, Dysfunction

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• Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!

  John Randolph Price

  Inspiration, Empowerment, Would Be

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• A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Differences, Quality

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