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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Science, Men

  Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

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• I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Song, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Learning, Acceptance

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

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• There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Class, Interesting, Exciting

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

  Thomas Huxley

  Imagination, Probability

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.138, tredition

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• God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

  William S. Paley

  God, Work Out, Ends

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• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.355, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Law, Way

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• The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Knowledge, Science, Tasks

  "On Man". 1849.

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• I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

  T. E. Brown

  Writing, Fitting, My Own

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• Freedom without limits is just a word.

  Terry Pratchett

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• The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Moving, Validation, Two

  Paul Ricoeur (2006). “From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II”

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• The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

  Michael Porter

  Essence, Trying, Strategy

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• The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Niece, Belief

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 16, 2017

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• To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

  Francis Bacon

  Halloween, Entrepreneur, Political

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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 win the race at the slowest speed possible.

  Alain Prost

  Thinking, Winning, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Energy, Half, Individual

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• If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

  William Butler Yeats

  Poetry, Poet, Ifs

  Alexander Norman Jeffares, William Butler Yeats (1984). “A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats”, Palgrave Schol, Print UK

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• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, War

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

  Rick Moranis

  Country, Rocks, Listening

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• I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

  Corazon Aquino

  Husband, Knows, Involved

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• Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Men

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