Quotes About Limits

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.

Boundaries are fears made manifest, designed to protect us. I don't want protection, I want freedom.

In my private moments of despair, I am aware of the limits of my own imagination... imaginations shared invite collaboration and collaboration creates community. A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. We participate in the vitality of the struggle.

In the desert, success is the understanding of limits. One false move and you die. You can't talk your way out of thirst. Bare skin burns. Face-to-face with a spitting rattlesnake, the only thing you have to negotiate is your escape. There are rules in the desert. Pay attention. Adapt or parish.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

You must be meticulous about the thoughts you send out into the universe. It's listening. Argue for your limits and, sure enough, they're yours. You have to argue for your dreams.

Bottom line is most of the world will push you as far as you let them.

There's a fine line between being stupid and knowing you have to test your limits if you want to do any real living at all.

Lines are thin. So easy to cross. Impossible to uncross.

Bottom line is most of the world will push you as far as you let them. Barrons

So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.

We've all got limits on our energy, time, and attention. Why not place our focus on the situations and issues where we can move the needle?

This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Devlet gerekli bir belad?r. Devletin güç yetkileri gere?inden fazla olmamal?d?r.

Moderation is all very well, but only in moderation.

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows—one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report

population matters, distribution matters just as much because extremes of inequality push humanity beyond both sides of the Doughnut's boundaries.