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“I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.”

Thinking Should Play Limits Oneself Radio Radio Plays

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

Source: Her Brothers Her Journal

“But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.”

Art Limits Oneself

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.”

Men World Way Needs Home Seems Faces Success Lying Community Successful Limits Capacity Oneself Honestly Ashamed Family And Friends Constructive Successful Life

Book:If You Ask Me

Source: If You Ask Me

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.”

Should Kind Self Opportunity Goal Realizing Generations Keys Limits Oneself Consumption Refusal Pioneers This Generation Procreation

Author:Tom Robbins

“It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.”

Limits Oneself Ridiculous Versions

Author:Simon Critchley

“One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.”

Ifs Country States Opportunity Speak Language My Own United United States Limits Oneself Immigrants You Choose Polish

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.”

Ifs Expression Limits Concepts Oneself Determined Manifestation Muse Fulfilling Weariness

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.”

Way Limits Oneself One Way Will Power Shack Shack Book

Author:William P. Young

“Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.”

Giving Mean Self Limits Commitment Oneself Behalf

Book:Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

Source: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

“Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.”

Challenges Ability Stage Events Judging Development Limits Standards Oneself Crucial

Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day