Quotes About Limits

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

There are times when one feels liberated from one's limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

Ró?nica pomiÄ™dzy gÅ'upotÄ… a geniuszem jest taka, ?e geniusz ma granice.

What about self-denial, then? If you had a God, you'd have a reason for self-denial.' 'But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Remember, that on the contrary a donkey is not only an intelligent animal, but also an obedient, polite and hard-working one. But if it's overloaded beyond its capacity or expected to be a race horse, it will stop and say, "I cannot do this. Do whatever you want." And you can beat it all you want – it won't move.

MMA RAMOTSWE observed speed limits for two reasons. One of these was that she believed that laws were there to be obeyed, and that if everybody drove as fast as they liked there would be mayhem on the roads.

The idea that there might be limits to growth is for many people impossible to imagine. Limits are politically unmentionable and economically unthinkable. The culture tends to deny the possibility of limits by placing a profound faith in the powers of technology, the workings of a free market, and the growth of the economy as the solution to all problems, even the problems created by growth.

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.

If we're to understand anything, we have to simplify, which means we have to make boundaries.

Understanding layers of limits and keeping an eye on the next upcoming limiting factor is not a recipe for perpetual growth, however. For any physical entity in a finite environment, perpetual growth is impossible. Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.

When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo».

infinite growth on a finite planet

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.