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“People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.”

People Thinking Trying Looks Made Opportunity Leadership Lines Leader Creative Progress Taught Limits Innovation Limitation Kindergarten New Directions

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.”

Ifs Knows Done Guy Asks Taught Serious Fit Limits Ears Muscles Physically Fit Triathlon

Author:Jack LaLanne

“We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?”

Author:David Bezmozgis

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.”

Made Seems Interest Party Leader Class Groups Taught Limits Pressure Aim Democratic Following Factors Appeals Republic Unifying Pressure Groups Bismarck

Author:Paul Johnson

“I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mean Doe Bigs Care Mother Sky Taught Limits Accomplish Who Cares Think Big Sky's The Limit

Author:Eli Manning

“But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come, and whether to the sum of them There be a limit or be none, for thee Let us unfold; likewise what has been found To be the wide inane, or room, or space Wherein all things soever do go on, Let us examine if it finite be All and entire, or reach unmeasured round And downward an illimitable profound.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Matter Body Found Space Rooms Taught Goes On Limits All Things Profound Rounds Wide All Time Thee Finite

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.”

Persons Young Father Process Too Much Taught Amount Limits Endless Something New

Author:Suzy Kassem

“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”

People World Has Beens Whole Stuff Taught Limits Difficulty Range Examining Muslim World

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

Writing Stories Grief Achieve Taught Flower Limits Survival Garden Fingers Gardening Exhaustion Writing Stories

Author:Eudora Welty

“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”

Wisdom Taught Limits Patience Sickness Misfortunes Impatience Having Patience Life Patience

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.”