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Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor

“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.”

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”

Thinking World Giving Humans States Facts Seems Values Turns Fear Pay Crazy Limits Benefits Adults Stupidity Dues Enjoyment Boredom Meanness Questionable Respectability

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.”

Thinking Should Littles Ends Certain Bits Perfect Mystery Limits Little Bit Should Have Clarity Inscrutable

Author:Billy Collins

“I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Success Limits Careful Probability

Author:Richard A. Clarke

“And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.”

Thinking Men Remember Succeed Limits Exuberance

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.”

Thinking Artist Party Worry Fashion Limits Toxic Cult

Author:Amanda Harlech

“I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Chance Periods Limits Why Not Historic Pyramids

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.”

Thinking Way Should Universe Ability Space Cost Limits Driven Exploration New Ways Rockets Space Exploration Elevators Space Travel Lasers Microwaves

Author:Michio Kaku

“Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Genius Limits Accomplished

Author:Yoko Ono

“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Real Problem Certain Roles Groups Media Type Limits Prejudice All Kinds Interaction Portrayal

Author:Darnell M. Hunt

“I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.”

Thinking Want Trying Character Interesting Amount Limits Interviews

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.”

People Thinking Worry Violence Limits Violent Bored

Author:Eli Roth

“It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.”

Thinking Trying Littles Dream Kids Wanted Moving Next Team Limits Majors League Juniors Junior High Major League Little League

Author:Jim Abbott

“In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.”

Thinking Moving Ability Walks Emotion Kindness Focus Trump Limits Revenge Moving Forward Outlook Positively Walks Of Life Counterproductive Upbeat Think Positively Unproductive

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.”

Thinking Men Doe Two Nations Wish United Opinion Limits Kingdoms Sensible Assembly Mischief United Kingdom

Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Joy Asks Limits Need God

Author:John Piper

“I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.”

Thinking Needs Character Certain Actors Can Do Class Roles Type Limits Vices Backgrounds Privileged Working Class Vice Versa

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Want Kind Persons I Can Play Faces Can Do White Animal Attitude Roles Color Limits Green Paint Purple

Author:Grace Jones

“I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.”

People Thinking Want Needs Different Lying Honest Limits Behavior Mass Consequence Okay Being Honest Faithful Contradiction Cheat Being Faithful

Author:Dan Savage

“I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?”

Thinking Want Style Limits Limitation

Author:Mike Ness

“I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.”

Thinking Humans Kind Real Ends Spirit Hate Powerful Limits I Hate Green Boxes Human Spirit

Author:Frank Capra

“The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.”

Thinking Character Stories Film Certain Audience Honesty Limits Pages Males Access Intimacy Developing Explicit

Author:Travis Mathews

“I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Hard Culture Emotion Limits Scales Genuine Chinese Relate Composer Songwriters Strict Avoided Chinese Culture Pastiche Strict Rules

Author:Damon Albarn

“For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it. As far as me choosing these characters that have a lot of personality, I don't necessarily think it's intentional. I just think that I try and come up with a backstory of who they are, depending on the script or how rounded these characters are, and just go from there.”

Thinking Knows Trying I Can Character Shows Given Fun Personality Limits Scripts Come Up Boundaries

Author:Katie Cassidy

“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

“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.”

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Stories Might Certain Ability Watches Millions Hard Work Limits Harder Storytelling Budgets Giants Work Harder

Author:Vince Gilligan

“State governor is certainly nothing to be sneered at! But I don't think that there are still limits here. A gay man could presumably also become chancellor.”

Thinking Men Stills States Gay Limits Governors Gay Men

Author:Jens Spahn

“Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.”

Thinking Ideas Four Limits Election Accepted Contribution Working It Funding General Elections

Author:Mark Shields

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Made Sometimes Age Wanted Certain Couple Limits Singing Years Ago Guitar Jail Realising Realised Playing Guitar Loving Myself

Author:Theresa Wayman

“Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.”

Thinking Whole America Spirit Can Do Gone Source Periods Limits Optimism Strikes Disaster

Author:Peter Beinart

“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.”

“Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!”

Thinking Limits

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!”

Thinking Knows World Doe Done Impossible Limits Inner Peace

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.”

Thinking Should Ideas Certain Belief Growth Limits Progressive Permit Dogma New Ideas Anchors Stagnant

Author:Kevin Smith

“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

“I don't think there's a limit as long as I keep my head right, don't get above myself, work hard and remember where I came from.”

Thinking Long Hard Remember Hard Work Limits

Author:Daunte Culpepper

“Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.”

Thinking Men World Helping Life Is Values Evil Goal This World Morality Limits Highest Related

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.”

Thinking Way Mean Girl Fighting Feminism Limits Complexes Feminist Core Being A Girl

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“It's a constant learning process - not just what you need to learn for the character or as far as good actors - but as an actor, there's no limit. Every time now, you're learning so, I think that's a good thing though.”

Thinking Needs Character Actors Process Limits Constant Good Things Learning Process Good Actors

Author:Paul Dano

“Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.”

People Thinking Self Situation Limits Findings Negative Embrace Acknowledge Mask True Self Clue Vocation Projection Liability

Book:Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.”

“Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ideas Might Choices Goal Possibility Limits Contrary Allowing Formal Restriction Crippled

Book:The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

Source: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

“[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Believe Humans Made Human Beings Huge Limits

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.”

Thinking Children Enough Dream Seems Age Turns Lost Can Do Lord Worry Baby Please Limits Guilt Burden Heavy Missions Repentance Good Enough Confession Heavy Burdens Never Good Enough

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Hard Whole Might Running Moving Fighting Next Easy My Own Movement Limits Yoga Flow Weight Train Champion Division Touching Toes The Next One Moving Up

Author:Conor McGregor

“Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.”

Thinking World Should Years Moving Limits Legs Champion Hats Hook World Champions Judah

Author:Andy Kindler

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