Best limits & numbers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.”

Bigs Reality Eye Numbers Color Wall Limits Shadow Notes Scales Endless Furniture Lipstick True Colors

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.”

Soul Ends Desire Certain Individual Strong Numbers Habit Limits Species Acquire Preservation Accustomed Superfluous

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.”

Children Wisdom Reality Moving Desire Politics Growth Numbers Economy Limits Married Property Liberalism Pairs Heirs Transmission Monogamy Progeny

Book:Ancient Society

Source: Ancient Society

“Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.”

Ideas Used Numbers Students Limits Comfortable Computer Structure Musical Access Tricks Software Continuity

Author:Jon Appleton

“A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.”

Form Numbers Cities Limits Quarters Urban Autonomous Small Numbers Federation Periphery

Author:Leon Krier

“On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.”

Real Bigs Numbers Willing Internet Cost Limits Standing Cameras Competition Marketing Unlimited Standing Out Competitors Youtube Flip Bandwidth

Author:Mark Cuban

“I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.”

Humans May Littles Culture Given Numbers Atheism Theory Reader Limits Originals Intention Positive Atheism Criticize Modest Justified Positively Memes

Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.”

Needs God Growth Numbers Limits Population Stupidity Forests Wilderness Permit Regulation Visitors Population Growth

Author:Dave Barry

“Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.”

Whole Universe Numbers Limits Infinite Edges Defined Infinity Atoms Void

Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.”

Stories Numbers Limits Plot

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.”

Firsts Numbers Special Limits Perfection Fairness Unification Oddness Triads Proportionality Special Beauty

Author:Iamblichus

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.”

People Thinking Knows Hard Fun Rooms Numbers Limits Busy Messy Eccentric Recluse

Author:Alexei Panshin

“Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe”

People Thinking Trying Believe Earth Universe Numbers Greater Prove Limits Infinite Size Sand Grain Multitudes Exceed Grains Of Sand

Author:Archimedes

“Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.”

Numbers Limits Perfection

Author:Richard Bach

“We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.”

Earth Faces Numbers One Day Limits Weapons Increase Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Discussing Elimination

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.”

Reality Film Numbers Gone Focus Limits Cinema Meant To Be Enigma

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

Ifs Doe Two Reason Lasts Numbers Steps Limits Achievement Infinite Supreme Recognition Realising Excess

Author:Blaise Pascal

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.”

May Numbers Limits

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.”

Seems Earth Numbers Limits Paper Bureaucracy Ecological Weavers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.”

Thinking Kind Certain Numbers Hair Limits Raises

Author:Mat McNerney

“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.”

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Author:Theresa May

“I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.”

Thinking Years Believe Two Lasts I Believe President Term Numbers Doubt Team Limits I Believe In Arguing No Doubt Last Year Term Limits I Am The Best

Author:Barack Obama

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

World May Motivational Reading Numbers Fiction Periods Offers Limits Reading Books Biographies Book Reading

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.”

Voice Numbers Democracy Limits Fewer Free Society

Author:Michael Moore

“The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.”

People Values Given Numbers Roles Periods Limits Benefits Messages Legacy Prophet Muhammad Seals Prophet Muhammad

Author:Cat Stevens

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!”

Men Feelings Language Grows Understanding Numbers Events Limits Vocabulary

Book:Plague of Angels

Source: Plague of Angels

“What will he [Satan] do first? Prevent spirits from coming to earth. How will he do this? He'll do all in his power to promote abortion. He'll convince people to have no children. He will raise fears about over population and encourage governments to make laws that limit the number of children couples can have. He'll do whatever he can to keep those spirits form coming!”

People Firsts Children Government Earth Form Law Spirit Numbers Couple Limits Raises Population Satan Abortion Convince

Book:What I Wish I'd Known in High School: A Crash Course in Teenage Survival

Source: What I Wish I'd Known in High School: A Crash Course in Teenage Survival

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

Perfect Numbers Business Hard Work Limits Entrepreneur Details Funding Business Leaders Silicon Business Leadership Successful Entrepreneurs Best Business Business Inspiration Challenges In Business Starting Up

Author:Jack Dorsey

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