Quotes About Limits

To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, Irulan agreed. There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, Paul said.

To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

Desire brings the participants together. Data sets the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

A top-heavy bureaucracy the electorate cannot touch always expands to the system's limits of energy. Steal it from the aged, from the retired, from anyone. Especially from those we once called middle class because that's where most of the energy originates.

A top-heavy bureaucracy the electorate cannot touch always expands to the system's limits of energy.

At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.

We are pushing the limits on the chassis and the engine sides a lot in order to have a competitive car, and this is why we are winning races, but also, if you push the limits at a certain stage, you find them.

I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn't be allowed to sell contaminated meat.

If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

I think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there's no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that's where I was able to have creative freedom with it.

The thing about nagging is that it's not nagging if you ask a person once. It only becomes nagging when you're asking for the fortieth time.

after a parent-teacher conference that his firefighter and DEA agent brothers-in-law lowered the hammer: No devices were allowed whenever they sat down to eat as a family. And that included when they dined out. They placed time limits on their computers in addition to the already installed parental controls, and they had to leave their cell phones on their parents' dresser before retiring for bed.

The Myth of Progress teaches that science and technology will empower individuals, unencumbered by limits imposed by religion and tradition, to realize their desires.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

beyond its own borders without encroaching on the autonomy of another.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

Sisyphus,' is an interpretation of the unavoidable limits to which everyone who is human is condemned. The constructive way of dealing with anxiety in this sense consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a 'teacher,' to borrow Kirkegaard's phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny.