Limitation Quotes - Page 35

• I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Use, Excuse

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• Men must know their limitations.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Conservative, Knows

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• Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

  Paul Farmer

  Promise, Care, Poverty

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• The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Medicine, Different Ideas

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• I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Challenges, Looks, Knows

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• My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

  Greta Garbo

  Fall, Thinking, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Acceptance, Men

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Religion, Novelty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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• Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Overcoming, Needs

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• Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

  Lauryn Hill

  Responsibility, Fans, Individual

  "Singer Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months in jail for not tax evasion". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2013.

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• When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

  David Icke

  Real, Believe, Two

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• Your limitations create your sound.

  Norah Jones

  Sound

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• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Graduates

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• The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

  Dean Karnazes

  Body, Spirit, Humans

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.28, Penguin

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• When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Power, Men

  Remarks upon receiving an honorary degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963

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• When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, White, House

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• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

  Mike Pence

  India, Republic, Our Actions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Perfect, Doe

  "Perry to GOP Convention: Not Riding Into Sunset" by Morgan Smith, www.texastribune.org. June 7, 2012.

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• In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

  Steven Pinker

  May, Individual, Humane

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• Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

  Robert Smith

  Growing Up, Thinking, Accepting

  Melody Maker magazine, 1992.

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• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  Vic Snyder

  Senior, Important, Age

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

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