“Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.” PeopleLittlesPersonsShowsLeftTalentLimitsExpectationsEach DaySurprisingDisplayNoveltyShowing OffBragging Author:Baltasar Gracian
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.” SuccessLeftBusinessKnowledgeNew YorkBandLimitsSelf ImprovementUniversityAverageBusiness SuccessMusic Business Author:Alan Greenspan
“What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.” GovernmentLeftDangerLimitsFounders Author:Ed Crane
“Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.” KnowsLeftLimitsMysteriousModerationAbove And Below Book:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasGovernmentLawLeftResponsibilityRepublicanLimitsStrongerDemocratImmigrationAround The WorldProportionVersusSkepticalAmerican GovernmentPolarizationAmerican Law Author:Mark Krikorian
“People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.” PeopleCareKidsUsedTurnsLeftPayLimitsClothesCapitalismProfitTake CareAbsurdCapitalistBreaking Down Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.” YearsLongLeftStruggleFivePlansPossibilityMonthsLimitsAchievementHighestResearchDecidedHistoricalOpponentsFive YearsOppositionFollowersSovietInitiativeIllustrationIndustrializationHistorical ResearchFive Year Plans Author:Leon Trotsky
“There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.” ThinkingKnowsWholeLeftTermCan DoNumbersStageParticularTrumpLimitsAreasTradeUnionsRangeRemoveBarriersAgreementFormalEuropean UnionFree TradeTrade AgreementsInterim Author:Theresa May
“If someone tries to put limits on the press, I'll be the first one standing up for the right of press, left and right, to continue saying and being part of the discussion and forwarding the discussion.” IfsTryingFirstsLeftLimitsStandingPressesDiscussionLeft And Right Author:Rand Paul
“I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDifferentRealityMotivationLeftChanceForeverCarMissingLimitsLosingBusyDisappearDrivingFantasticUrgesDriversFormulasNot InterestedTake A ChanceAirlineAdrenalineFormula OneAdrenaline Rush Author:Niki Lauda
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.” WayMindHumansYoungLeftPoorPositionLimitsSickRelationCaringWanderOne WayServingTouchingPosition Of Power Author:William P. Young
“The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.” EnoughBeautifulTurnsLeftSidesAttentionCarLimitsOkayBlindSpeedDrivingChecksSpotsNecksCopBeautiful ThingsSignalsLanesSixteenCranesBlind SpotsSpeed Limits Book:An Abundance of Katherines Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.” PeopleHumanityTurnsChoicesLeftChristEnemyWalkingConflictLimitsTestsBlameAngryBitternessCheeksSuperficialHypocriteWalking With GodTurn The Other CheekInbreds Author:Francis Frangipane
“So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.” KnowsWantMadeEndsHardEnoughWholeStoriesFacesTurnsGirlLeftChanceLimitsMadnessMirrorsMeetingsStrangerSpeedWho I AmDustDespiseIndifferentCanvasBrushesVelocityHigh RoadCoughingChance Meeting Book:Crank Source: Crank
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” IfsWantInspirationalInspirationSeemsMotivationalPurposeChoicesLeftVisionLimitsCompromiseAspirationReasonableVisionariesLife ChoicesDisconnectedChase Your DreamsMaking ChoicesVision Of LifeChoices And DecisionsCreative VisionPath Of Least ResistanceMission And VisionNever CompromiseLeadership VisionFeeling StuckLeadership And VisionVisionary LeadersVisionary LeadershipSpiritual VisionLimiting YourselfDisconnecting Author:Robert Fritz