Limitation Quotes - Page 34

• I really like players who are not naturally gifted and have to achieve their success by other means. I like when people have to win against their own limitations,rather than just being phenomenally blessed.

  Rita Ackermann

  Blessed, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are no technical, electronic or financial limitations; one only has to work harder to improve. Lately I think a new attitude has prevailed that comics aren't inherently an Art form, but that some cartoonists are genuinely artists.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Attitude, Hard Work

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• What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the limitation of slavery; while he had only the most feeble means of enforcement. The British and the French could do their emancipating at a distance; Lincoln had armed resistance almost literally at his doorstep.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Country, Distance, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and provide compensation. When tribal clans fight, the victor is required to take care of the vanquished widows and orphans, which puts a limitation on bloodshed, and tempers warring groups to try and negotiate a compromise.

  Greg Mortenson

  Fighting, Trying, Important

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best policy is to set reasonable goals, given your limitations. Just try to be a little less tribalistic.

  Joshua Greene

  Real, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Childhood, Comfort, Excuse

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In certain states there's a statute of limitation on women who have been raped. How do you do that to a woman? If they are hiding something for 10 years that they finally have the courage to come forward and talk about, how could you take that away from her? And that person should still be held accountable. There's so much about this that we should always be talking about. There are so many layers. And it happens every day, all the time.

  Kate Hudson

  Hiding

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law, the existing power structure will lose its foundation. It is a process that no government can put a stop to in the long term. That also applies to some Arab countries, with some limitations. But we have to be patient. In the 1980s, nobody expected that the freedom movement in Poland would lead to the collapse of entire Eastern Bloc. That's why it would be a huge mistake were we to believe that authoritarian systems were indestructible.

  Heinrich August Winkler

  Country, Mistake, Believe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Real, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.

  Hyon Gyon

  Grief, People, Effort

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Honest, Evolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been reappraised and reinterpreted by more recent findings. Some of the older positive claims, as well as most of the negative criticisms of the Bible, have changed, usually for the better. For another, the actual amount of archaeological evidence is quite small. It has been estimated that less than 1% of archaeological sites in the Holy Land have been excavated, and those that have been excavated have only been partially excavated.

  Randall Price

  Past, Criticism, Negative

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to find a way to avenge yourself - even by illegal measures. In a sense, injustice is more personal. This idea has always been in Chinese history. I think we read about freedom of speech, or lack of freedom of speech, in China so often. But I don't think people here in America think about how justice, or the idea of justice, is so important in a Chinese setting. It's probably more important than freedom of speech in the Chinese mindset at this moment.

  Yiyun Li

  Thinking, People, Justice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a humanities class, I thought, I can't believe this. This is fantastic. This is what I want my life to be. When I was a young person, I did a lot of dabbling in Eastern religions, and it was very satisfying in some ways, but there's that limitation always, which I find myself bridling against.

  Barbara Hamby

  Believe, Humanity, Remember

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• I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

  Greg Mottola

  Done, Glad

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• But out of limitations comes creativity.

  Debbie Allen

  Creativity

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2015

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

  Fiona Apple

  Way, Resent

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 1997.

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• The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Government, World

  "Good To Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

  "Bezos On Innovation". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. April 17, 2008.

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• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge

  Humor, Men, Logic

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disease

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• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Daughter, Heart, Italian

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• If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

  Kevin Costner

  Achieve, Ifs

  "Keeper of the flame". Interview with Kevin Costner, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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