Top 1200 Personal Limits Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

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I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Life in space isn't easy. It's full of challenges that push the limits of technology, and often requires truly innovative solutions.

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

When I went to D.C., I thought I would have an incredible platform to help animals. But I realized very quickly that there were huge limits to what I could do.

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.