You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.
When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.
A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.
The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
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.
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.
I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.
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.
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality.
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
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.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Life in space isn't easy. It's full of challenges that push the limits of technology, and often requires truly innovative solutions.
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.
The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.
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.
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.
A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.
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