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Quotes About Limitation

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.
~ Richard Diebenkorn
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
~ Alexander Lebedev
Freedom is not having a big budget.
~ Claire Denis
I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
~ Billy Childish
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
~ W. G. Sebald
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].
~ Steven Amsterdam
Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.
~ Barry Schwartz
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
~ A. J. Cronin
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
~ Solomon Schechter
In two words, impossible.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Dare to see yourself for what you really are! Do not be limited by the judgements of others. Do not believe the lie of limitations. Inside of you is every possibility ever known. Close your eyes and visualize your divine beauty.
~ Unknown
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~ Unknown
A person that believes in themselves has unlimited opportunities. A person that doesn't believe in themselves holds themselves back in life.
~ Unknown
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
~ Unknown
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man
~ Henry Louis Mencken
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
~ Blaise Pascal
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~ Bob Dylan
E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.
~ Unknown
E prea mic? lumea. Întâlnim la fiecare pas numai umbre.
~ Unknown
E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.
~ Unknown
Uno no siempre hace lo que quiere, uno no siempre puede, por eso estoy aquí, mirándote y echándote de menos
~ Mario Benedetti
Por eso, sólo por eso, me apeo de mi suficiencia y me limito a decir: ojalá.
~ Mario Benedetti
La única felicidad que parece posible no es tan sólo la que no se cumple, sino la que nunca podría haberse cumplido
~ Mario Benedetti