Quotes of: Limitations Keyword

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

David Friedman

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

Roger Corman

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

Sandra Oh

I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far away and he’ll be just a memory, but I couldn’t ...

Eleven Minutes

A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in which any moralist, pagan or Christian, has every understood the term. And the family (which [Michael] Novak regards as vital to ...

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16 cycle, and so on. The amount that we have to increase r to get another period doubling gets smaller and smaller for each...

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art might be impossible in the twentieth century. The reasons that art seemed impossible are many and complex, but they were ...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

LOCKING HORNS Some are afraid to try new things, To take a simple risk, Limiting what they might accomplish, Limiting what they might wish. I'm not afraid to try new things, To take a little risk, For I believe that we've only moments, To do the thin...

Uninhibited From Lust To Love

Now I've been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people lose their jobs because of pushing the boundaries too far, but it's an interesting experience....

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only one feeling, hold one memory or carry out a limited task in the person's life. A fragment might be ...

Alice Jamieson

Management is like sex - everyone thinks they’re good at it despite limited evidence.

Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

Country of the Bad Wolfes

There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.

Dark Side Of Midnight

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Dune

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

Divine Union

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience

Discovering Yourself

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.

Existential Psychology East-West

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Everything Is Illuminated

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Eat, Pray, Love

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch