Limitation Quotes - Page 23

• Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Meaningful, Territory, Facts

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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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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• Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

  Charlie Kaufman

  Keys, Design, Quality

  "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Book by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, April 22, 2002.

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

  Mariane Pearl

  Believe, World, Individual

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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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• We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

  Helen Keller

  Choices, Soul, Events

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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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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• This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

  Kent Nerburn

  Marriage, Children, Father

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• It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Real, Men, Battle

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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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• You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Hate, Cutting, Pie

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Race, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.

  Michael Dumontier

  Technology, Self, Auto Tune

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Struggle, Moving, Writing

  "RT Interview: Charlie Kaufman On Synecdoche, New York". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 22, 2008.

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• As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Development, Should

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule.

  Ali Sina

  Powerful, Pride, Attachment

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Writing, Play, Piano

  "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.

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