Quotes About Limits

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

MENTORING Finally, since I am defining coaching, I should perhaps mention mentoring, another word that has crept into business parlance. The word originates from Greek mythology, in which it is reported that Odysseus, when setting out for Troy, entrusted his house and the education of his son Telemachus to his friend, Mentor. "Tell him all you know," Odysseus said, and thus unwittingly set some limits to mentoring.

Explain that good healers didn't stubbornly refuse to acknowledge their limits.

It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.

It may be in our best interest to proceed as though these and other abilities might be improved upon, so that at least we will not be deterred by false limits.

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

If a struggle emerges about eating, a toddler will get so involved in the struggle and so upset that it overwhelms her need to eat. This observation is just as true of struggles about potty training, what to wear, school work, and so on. Throughout your child's growing-up years, it is important to matter-of-factly set the limits and avoid the emotional fireworks and struggles. Learning to do this with feeding will help you in other areas as well.

Me duele que hoy ya no existan límites, como antes de las columnas de Hércules, porque me gustaría ser la primera en saltarme esas barreras.

but he was also a man who clearly understood the limits of the power of the sword. "Do you know," he said in those days, "what amazes me more than all else? The impotence of force to organise anything. There are only two powers in the world: the spirit and the sword. In the long run, the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

German endurance knows no limits — even in madness: Nietzsche endured his eleven years, Hölderlin forty.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities

Tot ceea ce iese din cadrele acceptate ale vie?ii de fiecare zi se ipostaziaz?, deoarece umanul are grani?e care exclud neobi?nuitul.

Ora, uma vez que abrimos a porta para as exceções, é difícil fechá-la.

But we must look forward as well as backward. The spaces still to be traversed far exceed those that have been traversed already. We can set no limits to the intellectual voyage which lies before the race. Even if we arbitrarily limit the life of men to that which is possible under terrestrial conditions, we must anticipate transformations of belief comparable in magnitude with those which already divide us from primitive mankind.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be.

The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible—and usually we've been told by people without much experience.

As in older and later empires, resources were not equal to the overextension of the imperial reach.

What's the speed limit for sex? Sixty-eight. Because at sixty-nine you have to turn around.

the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

People can wonder and ponder and imagine all they want. But their curiosity does not entitle them to enter my world.

It is like the expanding universe. The more our instruments penetrate it, the further the limits recede. We therefore have to assume that this expansion, this retreat, is directly proportional to the power of our instruments.

I think people can't say anymore, 'Celebrities should keep their political opinions to themselves,' because we elected a reality TV star, so I think that's off limits.