Quotes About Limitless

Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Good-bye, Jon, my friend." "Good-bye, Sully. We'll meet again." And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom," Jonathan would say in the evenings on the beach, "and precision flying is a step toward expressing our real nature. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. That's why all this high-speed practice, and low-speed, and aerobatics …

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there." Without

And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

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Ohne Bedenken brach er das Versprechen, das er sich selbst gegeben hatte. Derlei Schwüre gelten nur für Möwen, die mit dem Mittelmaß zufrieden sind. Wer einmal das Außerordentliche erfahren hat, kann sich nicht mehr an die Normen des Durchschnitts binden.

To begin with," he said heavily, "you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.

Everything that limits us we have to put aside

Space, to use a cliché, is big.

I am not merely abundant. I am infinite.

confidence. He contained worlds.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.