Limitation Quotes - Page 29

• I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Eye, Practice

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• It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Facts, Impossible, Sin

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• The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations are irksome. When the desires of the self come first, the needs of others are annoying. When we think we deserve it all, reaping only a portion can enrage.

  Carol Tavris

  Thinking, Self, Despair

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Fighting

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

  Peter McWilliams

  Appreciation, Overcoming, Helping

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• Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Struggle, Character, Social Behavior

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• Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.

  Earl Paulk

  Jesus, Order, And Love

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• NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I have changed since and I judge my contributions to NEU!'s music of the 70's in a historical context. They were both a description of my feelings back then as well as an expression of my musical abilities and limitations. It would be a mistake to ignore the time factor and it would be an artistic shortcoming to pick up on the old concept without doing any changes. There is no way this is going to happen anyway.

  Michael Rother

  Mistake, Musical Ability, Expression

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• I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sports, Children, Interesting

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.

  Tamaryn

  Strong, Self, Leather Jackets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Pain, Eye, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's fun to see people blow through their own perceived limitations.

  Misha Collins

  Fun, Blow, People

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.

  Krishna Das

  Negativity, Negative, Alive

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

  Gene Simmons

  Kissing, Opportunity, Self

  Interview with Tim Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mountain, Looks

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• It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being
  arbitrary.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Arbitrary, Source

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• Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

  Idries Shah

  People, Imagine, Dramatic

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.5, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

  William C. Dement

  Dream, Real, Opportunity

  William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”

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• You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

  Jeff Olson

  Impact, Gauges, Size

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.165, Greenleaf Book Group

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• I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Issues, Identity Politics

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

  Tim Hecker

  Decision, Audio, Sides

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

  Neil Peart

  Song, People, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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