Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

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

Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

Take everything to the next level and have fun doing it. No limits, no rules!