“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.” BelieveDifferentI BelieveMistakeSituationIndustryActivitySkillsLimitsProjectsUnderstoodInvestingBackgroundsSpheresMy MistakesBackground Knowledge Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.” HumansMatterLevelsClearSpecialParticularSeriousLimitsUnderstoodClaimsAffairObligationSignificanceCompetenceGeneral Public Author:Noam Chomsky
“6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.” IfsMenWayLife IsOur LivesEventsFieldsLimitsUnderstoodEternityEndlessVisualsLive In The PresentLife DeathDurationTimelessnessDens Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
“We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.” KnowsLongHurtLimitsUnderstood Author:Sarah Dessen
“...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.” PeopleFeelingsMightPainGrowsLimitsDegreesOrdinaryUnderstoodSpreadScalesTrappedSpillsSideways Author:Kristin Cashore