Quotes by Limits Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess. Vladimir Kramnik playing-chesslimitsplayer For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions. Vladimir Lenin absurdityexaggeratedlimits Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets. Vladimir Nabokov limitsnineage In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration. Vladimir Putin japanreturnlimits The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. Walt Disney adversitylimitssky You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. Walt Disney bad-daylimitssoul From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Walt Whitman hourslineslimits On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question. Walter Brueggemann limitshandscommitment Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know. Walter Murch limitswritingdiscovery There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things. Walter Mosley limitstogetherwant At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over. Walter Zettl horselimitstaken When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability. Wangari Maathai limitsambitionhome Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory. Warren W. Wiersbe limitschristianletting-go A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill. Wayne Gerard Trotman ablelimitsskills Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in. Wayne Dyer accomplishrestrictionlimits We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism. Wayne Thiebaud limitscriticismneeds When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions. Wendell Berry differenceslimitsanimal Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross. Wayne Dyer labelslimitsboundaries To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. Wendell Berry abilitylimitsthinking We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods. Wendell Berry limitssimpletrying«4849505152535455565758»
