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• Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Boundaries, Humans

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• In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Artist, Personality, Vagueness

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

  Viola Spolin

  Firsts, Limits, Break

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• It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Growth, Important

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Conscious" Direction and the Growth of Reason (ch. 9), 1952.

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• This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Tiny, Facts

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• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Communication

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.

  Bill Drayton

  Advancement, Execution, Welfare

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• Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Mean, Limits, Form

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

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• Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  May, Matter, Humans

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• It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

  Gary Zukav

  Self, People, World

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• Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Would Be, Accepting, Disabled

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• For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Impossible, Believer, Impossibility

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• Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

  Vladimir K. Zworykin

  Trying, Failing, Protect You

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• Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Expression, Language

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• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

  Eric Maisel

  Insecure, Artist, Lists

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Heart, Optimism, Joy

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• A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

  Louis Tice

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Imagination, Satisfied

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• The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Ignorance, Science

  Matthew Arnold (1868). “Schools and Universities on the Continent”, p.260, Macmillan

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• It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Men, Rights

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• When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Self

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• The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.

  Jon Jones

  Believe, Mma, Don't Believe

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• I've had a mentality that I can do anything, I've never put limitations on myself

  Urijah Faber

  Mma, Can Do, I Can

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• There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.

  Natalie Portman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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