Quotes About Limit

Although there is a limit beyond which belief will not withstand disconfirmation, it is clear that the introduction of contrary evidence can serve to increase the conviction and enthusiasm of the believer.

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

if there is no explicit limit to work-in-progress and no signaling to pull new work through the system, it is not a kanban system.

You need slack to enable continuous improvement. You need to balance demand against throughput and limit the quantity of work-in-progress to enable slack.

The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.

My old man used to say that there's even an end to eternity.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.