Limits Quotes - Page 19

• Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

  Telle Whitney

  Diversity, Innovation, Problem

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a great asset because when you think you have reached your limit, there is someone who can push you to go further.

  Brian Houston

  Thinking, Training, Achieve

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.59, Hillsong Music Australia

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• In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

  Kevin VanDam

  Practice, Pounds

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• Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Bugs, Ability

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  Bill Bonner

  Running, Adversity, Men

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• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creative, Arise

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!

  Yukito Kishiro

  Battle, Purpose, Height

  "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 8: Fallen Angel". Manga series by Yukito Kishiro, September 1, 1994.

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• You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

  Alexander Kluge

  Expression, People, Community

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• Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Thinking, Tests, Traveling Alone

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• He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Struggle, Perfect

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• Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  Og Mandino

  Never Quit, Quitting, Occasional

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hero, Suffering, Moments

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Lying, Past

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• The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Blessed, Seasons Of Life, Knows

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• When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

  Marianne Williamson

  Falling In Love, Possibility, Force

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 19, 2015

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• Birth
  is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
  stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
  of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
  The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
  inner trust.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Pregnancy, Challenges, Birth

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• I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fighting, Rights, Long

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• Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

  Shawn Achor

  Creative, Waiting, Brain

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reflection, Terrible Events, Quests

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.55, City Lights Books

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• The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

  Larry Dossey

  Doe, Different, Fundamentals

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• There are no limits, you are only limited by however far you want to be limited

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Want

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