Limitation Quotes - Page 36

• A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fun, Writing, Differences

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• I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

  Barbra Streisand

  Want, Limits, My Own

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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Java, Serious, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

  James Thurber

  Taste, Comedy, Dignity

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.

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• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Blow, Agreement, Force

  What Next? (1932) ch. 14

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• I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

  Ben Vereen

  Moving, Towns, Used

  "Ben Vereen Reflects on His Career Before Playing the Town Hall" by James Sims, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

  Dionne Warwick

  Pregnancy, Parent, Faces

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• When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Arguing

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Justice, Humanity, Crime

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• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

  Saul Williams

  Mistake, Rap, Ghetto

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• I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

  Vir Das

  Children, Fun, Fighting

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• I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  School, Opposites, Imagination

  "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. November 04, 2012.

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• Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Knows, Ifs

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• There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Feelings, Let It Go, Together

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• My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

  Grace Paley

  Real, Writing, Vocabulary

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

  Libba Bray

  Struggle, Men, Evil

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Parent, Proof

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.33, Random House

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• Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Crush, Individuality, Balance

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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• Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Sight, Serenity

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• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Beware the man of a single book.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Book, Men

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• When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

  William P. Young

  Son, Blood, Bird

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• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

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