Best 446 quotes in «boundaries quotes» category

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Each personal limit you exceed, each boundary you cross, verifies that most limits are indeed self imposed. Your potential and possibilities are far greater than you can ever imagine. You are capable of far more than you ever thought.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Greed has no boundaries

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.