Limitation Quotes - Page 40

• The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Perfect, Special, Calling

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.

  Ilchi Lee

  Passion, Helping Others, Skills

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• I found out that there
  weren't too many limitations,
  if I did it my way.

  Johnny Cash

  Inspirational, Way, Found

  "Music's Man in Black". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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• I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Believe, Firsts

  Interview with Tibor Machan, Joe Cobb, Ralph Raico, reason.com. December 1974.

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• It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

  Marvin Minsky

  Knowledge, Expression, Example

  "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 2006.

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• Desire itself is movement
  Not in itself desirable;
  Love is itself unmoving,
  Only the cause and end of movement,
  Timeless, and undesiring
  Except in the aspect of time
  Caught in the form of limitation
  Between un-being and being.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Desire

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Infinity, Jazz

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Peace, Time, Heart

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Mar 03, 2014

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• Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Reform, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

  Aruna Roy

  Strength, Responsibility, People

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• It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Dark, Years

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• I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

  Katherine Dunham

  Dance, People, Dancing

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• I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Acting, Shylock, Failing

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• Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

  John Wimber

  Personality, Church, Comfort

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• Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Perfection, Humanity

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• Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Strength, Adversity, Warrior

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "My Country and My People" by Lin Yutang, (p. 328), 1935.

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• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

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• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Men, Ideas

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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• To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

  Laozi

  Time, Practice, Giving

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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