“First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.” FirstsPersonsTeachBreakLimitsLimitation Author:Viola Spolin
“My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.” ImportantIdeasWould BeBehindsTeachComedyHeroLimitsAcceptableWhat's ImportantMy Hero Author:Lea DeLaria
“Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.” DreamBigsMotherFatherTeachAchieveLimitsDaughterMother And Father Author:Hillary Clinton
“Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.” NeedsMovingEmotionTeachHealthyMetsLimitsShameBasic Needs Book:Healing the Shame that Binds You Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.” MeanReasonWholeProblemNationsSocialJusticeTeachLimitsSpeechSolutionsRelationDiscussionWelfareRelyFree SpeechIndispensableAdjustmentSolution To A ProblemRely UponSocial WelfareSocial Relations Author:Stanley Forman Reed
“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.” ThinkingGivingYearsWould BeSchoolStuffTeachTeacherStudentsCoupleThousandLimitsStandardsNotionDefinitionsRemarkableGraduatesMathematicianThousand YearsGraduate SchoolFormal Education Author:Keith Devlin
“The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.” ThinkingChildrenLostParentMoralTeachWorryTeachingEffectsHumilityLimitsResponsibleConsumersGoodsParenthood Author:Michael Sandel
“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.” TwoLawChoicesIndividualPrinciplesRolesTeachLimitsBehaviorAcceptableIndividual Choice Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingYearsI CanEnoughTeachWiseStudentsLimitsSpeedQuittingSmokingOddsGetting OldBeing WiseQuit SmokingSpeed Limits Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits--through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.” GivingLordTeachIgnoranceWillingLimitsDetermineNeglectMortalityDisobedience Author:Sheri L. Dew
“Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".” PeopleIfsHas BeensFallWishPerfectTeachHigherCivilizationDemandLimitsStandardsConstitutionVictimNeurosisHigher Standards Book:Sexuality and The Psychology of Love Source: Sexuality and The Psychology of Love