Limits Quotes - Page 32

• Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
  And in the unlimited limits appear,
  So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
  And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
  What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
  The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Joy

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• When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2017). “ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…”, p.5995, e-artnow

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• For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

  Rene Descartes

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Intellectual

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• The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Math, Imagination, World

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• You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

  David Henry

  Men, Size, Men Bashing

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• Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?

  Helen Wills

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Desire, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 09, 2015

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• This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

  Robert Kirkman

  Thinking, People, Grime

  "'The Walking Dead': Robert Kirkman says finale will 'shock people'". www.ew.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Real, Use, Calendars

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• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Children, Parent, Citizens

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

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• Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
  an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Abraham Maslow

  Zero, Men, Justice

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

  Tony Kushner

  Hurt, Writing, Scary

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• My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, and Star Trek. We lived to watch those reruns.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Stars, Twilight

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• I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

  H. G. Wells

  Expectations, Dawn, Possibility

  "Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"".

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• Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is 'I-consciousness'. Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside. One feels that way as long as this pot of 'I' exists. When the 'I' disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.

  Ramakrishna

  Ocean, Two, Long

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, 1942.

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• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Self, Police

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• Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

  John Fowles

  Accepting, Ought

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Practice, Restriction

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Memories, Fate, Long

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• Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.

  Nik Halik

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Passion

  FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Jul 26, 2012

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Desire, Impossible, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Taken, Stage

  Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.29, Trafalgar Square Books

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• There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Self, Restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi (1928). “Young India”

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• I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

  John Chafee

  Thinking, Oil, Damage

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