Quotes About Limits

Muckleroy began to hear from friends in the business, as he later recalled, "that we were huge on the wrong side of a trade." But so unconcerned were the Enron brass that at the company's mid-August board meeting, the Enron board increased Borget's trading limits by 50 percent. One skeptical Enron executive who attended that meeting returned to his office and told a colleague: "The Enron board believes in alchemy.

Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance

You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.

Not only do you not do your best work in the "dangerously over-challenged" range, but if you stay in this range for very long, something in your life will break. I don't care how resilient you are, how much energy you naturally possess, or how much mental toughness you think you have; something will break. You will not be exempt from this law. Your health, marriage, connection with your kids, relationship with God, emotional well-being—something is going to crack.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies. Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But we do not know either the existence or the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality

Ambiguity goes just so far and no further.

For I should like to know by what right this animal, which recognizes his own weakness, measures God's mercy and keeps it within limits suggested by his own fancies.

you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities

You have to develop enough common sense to know what you can't do and focus on what you can. Know your limits. If you can't do it, don't, and say so

In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be found in the world, existing only in imagination, and on account of her they are jealous of the surrounding air, of the laws of nature, of the millennia that went by before her.

The shimmering, ever-shifting borderline, like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed.

Eva." He sighed and shoved a hand through his hair. "I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside that I can't help but see them as arbitrary.

Lo único que hacía era estudiar demasiado, y nunca sabía cuándo debía detenerme.

Nur diejenigen, die riskieren zu weit zu gehen, können überhaupt herausfinden, wie weit man gehen kann.

Anything is possible, but many things are highly unlikely. Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Of course one can 'go too far' and except in directions in which we can go too far there is no interest in going at all; and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. Not to go far enough is to remain 'in the vague' as surely and less creditably than to exceed

A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Nada de perros aquí! ¡Ya tengo bastante con ustedes!

There was such a thing as giving too much, after all