Home / Topics / Limits Quotes

Limits Quotes

Browse 3466 quotes about Limits.

Limits Quotes

“Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.”

Hurt Too Much Limits Painful Separation It Hurts

Author:Sam Waterston

“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.”

“A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.”

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“Know not to revere human things too much.”

Knows Humans Too Much Human Nature Limits

Author:Aeschylus

“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.”

“...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.”

Giving Persons Care Too Much Trouble Limits Customers Bars Concentration Limitless Waiter Subjugation

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.”

Trying Firsts Ideas Loses Perfect Interesting Too Much Limits Cease Spoil New Thought Freshness

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

“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

“So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.”

Poverty Too Much Talent Missing Limits Margins

Author:Jesse Jackson

“On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.”

Knows Firsts Shows Too Much Limits Drinking Smoking Curves Learning Curve Drinking Too Much

Author:Dave McPherson

“I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.”

Thinking Might Too Much Limits Emphasis

Author:Tommy Lee

“Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing”

Ifs Trying Can Do Steps Too Much Limits

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.”

People Ifs Way Too Much Drug Limits Intellectual Innovation Competition Property Protection Invention Economist Stolen Spurs Intellectual Property

Author:James Surowiecki

“Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.”

Source: The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1