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“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”

Firsts May Said Given Limits Approach Mathematics Exceed Magnitude

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.”

Firsts Persons Teach Break Limits Limitation

Author:Viola Spolin

“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”

Art Hope Causes Situation Limits Findings Originals Temporary Misfortunes Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.”

Mean Form Force Limits Mediums Limitation Improvisation Transcending Very Mean

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.”

Self Play Limits Structure Chosen Yield Intensity Spontaneity Ignite Amplify Containment

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.”

Thinking Winning Effort Race Limits Ideals Speed Minimum

Author:Alain Prost

“There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.”

Success Law Possibility Limits Increase Proportion Mastery

Author:Roger McDonald

“He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.”

Knows Men Speak Ability Limits Occasions Suitable Pandit

Author:Chanakya

“We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.”

Water Mines Limits Areas Army South Possession Oil Borders Enterprise Rapids Invasion Timber Water Power

Book:The Imperialist

Source: The Imperialist

“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”

World Want Firsts Ends Bigs Choices Ability Pay Steps Middle Internet Limits Concern Paid Customers Access Users Tolls Providers

Author:Vinton Cerf

“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.”

Form Movement Limits Depth Visuals Shock Infinity Modeling Limitless Chiaroscuro

Author:Joan Miro

“Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.”

People Humans Stills Used Challenges Environment Huge Keys Limits Bird Owners Chickens Interaction Flocks Culling

Author:David Nabarro

“The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.”

Choices Limits Approach Appropriate

Author:Richard Wyckoff

“It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.”

Ifs Hard House Ability White Republican Limits Congress Ties Agendas White House Momentum Disarray

Author:Calvin Jillson

“My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.”

Action Greater Fields Limits Obstacles Meaningful Surround

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“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.”

Needs Kind Limits Criticism Extremes Critical Confrontation

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.”

Soul Limits Your Soul Bad Day Where You Come Animated Movies

Author:Walt Disney

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

Men Can Do Economy Limits

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.”

“Through wrestling, through the hard work and the sweat, through the victories and the defeats, we learn a great deal about ourselves. Wrestling shows you your limits, your weaknesses, your strengths and, ultimately, you grow because of what it shows you.”

Hard Shows Grows Deals Hard Work Victory Limits Weakness Defeat Wrestling Sweat

Author:Jay Robinson

“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”

“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.”

“Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.”

Ifs Giving Opportunity Politics Power Democracy Limits Equal Reasonable Equal Opportunity

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”

Love Age Death Limits Novelists Birthday Inspirational Love Playwright Eternal Love Everlasting Love Time Limit Endless Love Age Love

Book:The Forsyte Saga

Source: The Forsyte Saga

“There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.”

Children Littles Discipline Limits Beats Hug

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.”

Firsts Made Two Together Force Conflict Limits Intellectual Thirds Critical Fourth Formal Contradictory Right Words

Author:Dylan Thomas

“We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

Use Home Kids Technology Limits

Author:Steve Jobs

“Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”

Ifs Mind Born Limits Capacity Sticks Persistence Expansion Valve

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.”

Love Heart Feelings Choices Force Love Is Limits Harshness

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.”

Ifs Heart Virtue Objects Goes On Holy Limits Capable Infinite Charity Saint Infinity Definite

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.”

Knows Men Able Used Politics Answers Limits Bird Debate Used To Be Senate Nodding

Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook

Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

Inspirational Moments Principles Practice Expression Limits Perfection Compromise Imperfect Practise Perfection And Imperfection

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.”

Mind Courses Energy Our Lives Dangerous Limits Hatred Twists Aversion

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”

Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent

“Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.”

Men Ideas Women Attention Fields Limits Projects Enlightenment Men Women

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.”

Art Problem Order Women Situation Limits Enlightenment Duality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.”

Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

“Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.”

Knows Wells I Can Can Do Know How Achieve Limits Achievement Tests

Author:Price Pritchett

“Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.”

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.”

Death Heaven Amount Limits Love And Wisdom

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.”

May Motivational Limits Who You Are

Author:Ralph Smart

“Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”

“The sky is the limit when you work hard.”

Hard Sky Hard Work Limits Mma Ufc Sky Is The Limit Sky's The Limit

Author:Chris Weidman

“Don't limit yourself and don't let anyone put a limit on your potential.”

Author:Randa Markos

“In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.”

World Humans Young Dangerous Skills Limits England Flying Flight Australia Aviation Pushing Endurance Pilots 1930s Military Aviation

Author:Mary Garden

“No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.”

Believe May Matter I Believe Process Theory Prove Limits Complexes Treatment Skepticism Theoretical

Author:Albert Einstein

“I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.”

Ifs Want Would Be Style Limits Neglect Rock N Roll

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Ain't no boundaries, ain't no limits.”

Limits Boundaries Mma No Boundaries

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.