“ I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ The chief limiting factor for e-business is a skill shortage-not the ability to buy hardware and software-or lack of ideas or capital. ”
- John Patrick- Copy
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“ Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. ”
- George Oppen- Copy
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“ When I sense a more conservative and limiting attitude coming from musicians, than my impression is that they're really moving away from the true spirit of jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point — but you are limiting yourself before even starting. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears. ”
- Paul R. Scheele- Copy
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“ It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. ”
- Janov Pelorat- Copy
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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric… ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
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“ MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock… ”
- Jean Houston- Copy
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“ I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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