Limits Quotes - Page 15

• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Herman Kahn

  Mean, Views, Defense

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Powerful, Way, Belief

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• Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Water, Gold, Use

  Marianne Wiggins (2003). “Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Allies, Bookstores, Natural

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• Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Mean, Over You

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

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• The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Natural

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on the French Revolution”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

  Charles Kettering

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Abuse, Purpose, May

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  Steven Holl

  Always Trying, World, Architect

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• A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

  Gish Jen

  Men, Made

  "Typical American". Book by Gish Jen, 1991.

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as boundaries only limits that get pushed further and further.

  Travis Pastrana

  Boundaries

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• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

  May Sarton

  Light, Sloth, Important

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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• I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

  Anton Corbijn

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Believe, Magic

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

  Morris S. Tremaine

  Inspirational, Country, Business

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• I haven't placed any limits on myself

  Randy Couture

  Motivational, Art, Havens

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• You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Marijuana, People, Support

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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• The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

  Ayn Rand

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

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• Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Exercise

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• The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Desire, Absence

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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