Boundaries Quotes - Page 38

• The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Math, Men, Past

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Travel, Nature, Yellow

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• But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Mean, Men

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• It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Successful, Science, Discipline

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• The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Body, All Things

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.353, Delphi Classics

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• Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Three, Language

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• Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

  Brené Brown

  Winning, People, Hustle

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Littles, Sometimes

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.368

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• I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

  Brian McKnight

  Wall, Hate, Always Trying

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• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  Fergie

  Girl, Queens, Drama

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• There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Leader, Church, Scripture

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• One of my favorite things about animation is that the boundaries are as limitless as our imaginations. If we can dream it, we can make it. And if we do it well, audiences will believe it wholeheartedly.

  Dean DeBlois

  Dream, Believe, Imagination

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Way, Concealing

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Cutting, Ideas, Creative

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• The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

  Beryl Markham

  Dark, Light, Rocks

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• Isn't death the boundary we need?

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Needs, White Noise

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.186, Penguin

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• I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Believe, Political Differences

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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• Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Responsibility, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

  Charlie Munger

  Knowledge, Past, Answers

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• The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scientific information - a freedom accepted by the countries of the world irrespective of political systems or religions. ... Great care must be taken that the scientific network is utilized only for scientific purposes - if it gets involved in political questions it loses its special status and utility as a nonpolitical force for development.

  Sune Bergstrom

  Country, Taken, Science

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• Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Spiritual, Limits

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

  Gideon Defoe

  Girl, Book, Writing

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