What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who’s best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don’t think there is any point in having wars if that’s how you’re going to behave. It’s pathetic. All this whining!
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
I wouldn’t say I’m a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound – letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it.
The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous – at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in the hands of the people who are working behind the scenes.
I have no limits. There is no ‘No’ in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me.
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
When you look at the calculation, it’s amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you’ve pushed Einstein’s theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That’s telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.
I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.
Romance and girls I don’t talk about anymore: it’s off limits. I just want to keep it private.
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That’s part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
I have to know my limits.
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.
I was happy that at home we were a closed circle and then we went out playing chess and saw the world. It’s a very difficult life and you have to be very careful, especially the parents, who need to know the limits of what you can and can’t do with your child.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.
Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.
A court’s assessment of an agency’s compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency’s policy is good or whether the agency’s intentions are laudatory.
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
I don’t think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he – she – is an inquisitive species. You can’t control science. You have to control the effects of science.
I’m always very cautious, because I don’t want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way.
The greats – they protect their sleep because it’s where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don’t let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.
It’s almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There’s only so much trouble I can get in.
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
I’ve really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I’ve been extremely well-supported.
To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
I don’t think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.
When you are a coordinated partner, you are, in effect, on the campaign staff. You can talk to the whole staff and have virtually no limits on what you can discuss and strategize around. When you are an independent friend of the campaign, you are not allowed to strategize with the campaign on their political decisions.
I don’t think anybody should put limits on what you believe you can do.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
I look at it this way. I’m not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I’m playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I’m going to play no matter what my age is.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
It’s great to see so many women grab the world by its lapel, push their limits, and shine through it all.
I’m not sure if I’m most happy when I’m comfortable and content or when I’m pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
An elite class that is free to operate without limits – whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior – is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
