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Quotes About Limits

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
Unlimited freedom kills freedom.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Hay dos fronteras en nuestro mundo: la del tiempo y la del lugar.
~ Unknown
The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage, even crying is in vain.
~ Vanna Bonta
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...
~ Vera Nazarian
I now know the same secret that Michelle does: in order to have it all we can't do it all.
~ Unknown
Values are the chosen limits that allow our lives to deepen rather than dissipate.
~ Vicki Robin
You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
~ Frank Shorter
Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
~ Tom Petty
With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.
~ Unknown
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
~ Gertrude Stein
There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.
~ Lewis Hamilton
Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you're not asking for anything.
~ Unknown
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits to what can be attained.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Everyone has boundaries. If you find yourself doing something that makes you bitter, it is time to reconsider.
~ Peter Singer
Nothing can remain immense if it can be measured.
~ Peter Turchi
The sane man does not know that everything is possible. In other words, the mentally ill person at one time or another knew too much. And, as a result, so to speak, his head shut down.
~ Philip K. Dick
Sembrava non capire o, anche in un momento di stanchezza, non ammettere che avere dei limiti non era poi una cosa così vergognosa, e che lui stesso non era una casa di pietra di centosettant'anni, il cui peso gravasse su imperturbabili travi di quercia: che era, insomma, qualcosa di più transitorio e misterioso.
~ Philip Roth
Decide the outer boundaries of the kanban system. It is often best to limit this to the immediate span of political control. Do not force visualization, transparency, and WIP limits on any department that does not volunteer to collaborate.
~ David J. Anderson
Kanban must not be thought of as a software development lifecycle process or a project-management process. Kanban is a change-management technique that requires making alterations to an existing process: changes such as adding work-in-progress limits to it. Work
~ David J. Anderson
Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.
~ Unknown
That said, I admire people who are curious and open their minds to new possibilities, especially after a certain age. You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and with me it's my anus.
~ David Sedaris