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“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

“When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.”

Ifs Ideas Materials Limits Resources Ideals Compromise Developing Manifestation Permission Ideal Man

Author:Janet Echelman

“To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.”

Different Ends Reason Order Religious Moral Issues Objects Type Limits Intellectual Commitment Ideals Aim Fundamentals Pursue Concrete Faithfulness Coercion

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”

May Truth Belief Virtue Truth Is Limits Essentials Ideals Endless Statements Abstract Ingredients Confession Investigation

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.”

Trying Would Be Language Limits Concepts Ideals Increase Clouds Contemporary Links Meanings Of Words

Book:Barthes: Selected Writings

Source: Barthes: Selected Writings

“The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.”

People Way May Doe Dream Lying Humanity Limits Ideals Aspiration Finer Things

Author:Charles Ives

“China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.”

Decision Party Creativity Effects Citizens Limits Speech Ideals China Communist Freedom Of Speech Detrimental Communist Party

Author:Ai Weiwei

“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.”

Needs Doe Imagination Painting Limits Creating Ideals Paint Manifestation

Book:The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays

Source: The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays