Limitation Quotes - Page 21

• The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

  Joss Whedon

  Doe, World, Comic

  "Joss Whedon" by Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. August 08, 2007.

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• Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Equality, Race

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.161, Berghahn Books

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• Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.

  Ernest Holmes

  Two, Sticks, Abundance

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.280, Penguin

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• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
  Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times,
  that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, Enough Time, Impossible

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• He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

  Richard Bach

  Arguing

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• Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

  Mason Cooley

  Over You, Acknowledge

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• When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Dark, Matter

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Rain, Flower, Land

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.11, Rutgers University Press

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• ...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Mother, Disappointment, School

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• Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

  Peter Senge

  Team, People, Goal

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• Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Acceptance, Men, Emotional

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• Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

  Hermann Biggs

  Community, Important, Natural

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• No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Eye

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.131, Penguin

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• The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Government, Self, Ideas

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• Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Mean, Issues, Way

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Justice, Matter, Convenience

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• it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

  Charles Francis Richter

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• Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

  Robert Payne

  Effectiveness, Naked, Corruption

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Fate, Elements

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• I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained with intensity and focus, regardless of the gym or other limitations. These guys could do presses with pails full of cement and still get a great workout.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, School, Focus

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• Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

  Warren Buffett

  Dumb, Acknowledge, Cease

  1993 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, www.businessinsider.com.

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• In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

  James R. Swartz

  Reality, Self, Views

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• Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ignorance, Enemy

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

  Homaro Cantu

  Technology, Creating, Looks

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