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• It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Dream, Fear

  "Living beyond limits". TED conference, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• I have reached a limit in my work.

  Carlos Mesa

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• I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

  Aries Spears

  Games, Branches, Impression

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• Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

  Tony Clark

  Achievement, Littles, Dare

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• The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Moon, Miracle

  David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage

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• To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Opportunity, Machines

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• Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.

  Luke Watson

  Motivational, Running, Workout

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• On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Moving On, Molecules, Moved On

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• Australianism' means single-minded determination to win - to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the 'impossible' is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it - and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match - particularly a Test match - until the last run is scored or their last wicket down.

  John Arlott

  Running, Determination, Believe

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• I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Games, Play, Ems

  "Moneymaker under a microscope". Interview with Bernard Lee, www.espn.com. June 5, 2008.

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• The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Democracy, Virtue

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• The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Numbers, Vivid

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• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Cognition, Language

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• You never know the limit of a human being.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Humans, Knows, Human Beings

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• Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

  Scott Belsky

  Self, Tolerance, Awareness

  Scott Belsky (2011). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.239, Penguin UK

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• Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

  Scott Belsky

  Thinking

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• To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Judging, Able, Moments

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• Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.

  Michio Kushi

  Memories, Believe, People

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• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  Abel Ferrara

  Imagination, Cost, Determine

  "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.

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• There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Point Break, Boundaries

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• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, People

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• If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

  Jane Espenson

  Writing, Giving, Diversity

  "TV Mastermind Jane Espenson: From to to Evil Queens". Interview with Neal Broverman, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2011.

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• No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Athlete, Thinking

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• I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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