Top 100 Quotes About Limiting
#1. The farther you progress toward a vision of our species without limiting conditions on your consciousness, the farther you drift away from what makes you a person among persons in the human community.
Thomas Ligotti
#2. Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.
Karen Salmansohn
#3. The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
Godfried Danneels
#4. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
Ed Helms
#6. Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.
Michelle Tea
#7. The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver
#8. The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.
Kevin Shields
#9. A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
Vanessa Redgrave
#10. Pain, whether emotional or physical, often develops when we try to bust out of limiting or self-destructive comfort zones. Don't always trust it as a reliable sign to go back.
Charles F. Glassman
#11. To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
Dorothea Lange
#12. There is the right way and a million other ways. Eliminating the other options prevents limiting your results.
Kyle Barger
#13. And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Bill Condon
#14. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.
Cheryl Strayed
#15. I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating things clearly or dramatically. This whole course is trying to say there are millions of ways to approach writing a poem.
Matthea Harvey
#16. I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#17. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.
Kevin Harvey
#18. We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
Madeleine L'Engle
#19. The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.
Marianne Williamson
#20. impossible is an extremely limiting word in describing what is clearly taking place in front of one's eyes.
Fritz
#21. I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.
Jim Beaver
#22. I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
Edward Weston
#23. Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.
Wylie Dufresne
#24. Personally, I find the concept of a "final theory," or a "theory of everything," rather limiting. The fun of discovery will most likely last as long as the human race continues.
Francisco J. Duarte
#25. True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.
David O. McKay
#26. Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.
Tom Gjelten
#27. In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.
Jack Kornfield
#28. The Waterbearer loves, loves, loves its freedom, but eventually, when freedom is the only goal, it can get a little limiting. That's when Aquarius realizes its freedom has become its prison.
John Marchesella
#29. After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they could talk as well as any wolf. Unlike wolves, however, they mostly used their mouths, a thing she found limiting. How could you tell someone to keep away from your food when your own mouth was full?
Jane Lindskold
#30. Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don't help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better.
Maddy Malhotra
#31.
and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
Chuck Klosterman
#32. A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.
Noam Chomsky
#33. As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.
Tricia Helfer
#34. I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare ... Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
Francoise Sagan
#35. Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.
Joel Madden
#36. You are not the problem but fashion designers, who are limiting themselves creatively.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#37. The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.
Tim Walberg
#38. Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
Al Jourgensen
#39. The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
Werner Heisenberg
#40. The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
#41. I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#42. Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.
Kishore Bansal
#43. Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.
Roger Ebert
#46. The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
Barry Goldwater
#47. We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
Frank Herbert
#48. A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires.
Steven Redhead
#49. I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
Ritchie Blackmore
#50. Once again, by incorrectly limiting the verses to a special situation, these people change the meaning of the words of Scripture. And in that way they undermine the authority of the Word of God.
Wayne A. Grudem
#51. Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
Conrad Wolfram
#52. there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I
Shashi Tharoor
#53. When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Cheryl Richardson
#54. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...
Lauren Mackler
#55. As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
Brian Ferneyhough
#56. Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.
Maddy Malhotra
#57. I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
Gail Collins
#58. It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!
Timothy Dalton
#59. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
David W. Earle
#60. There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
Tim Scott
#62. I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
Saul Williams
#63. Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
David Hayter
#64. Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.
Peter Senge
#65. As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#66. Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.
Nana Awere Damoah
#67. The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S.
Jan C. Ting
#68. I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.
India.Arie
#69. Are your thoughts empowering or limiting?
Bob Proctor
#70. Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
Helen Fisher
#71. The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
Confucius
#72. I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
Philippe Petit
#73. Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.
Chris Hadfield
#74. One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.
Hugh Hefner
#75. We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
#76. Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.
Donna Brazile
#77. a man--venerable, with a white beard, or on a cross, or as a baby, or a sage seated in the full lotus position. Are these not limiting incarnations, temporary housings, of the great energy process?
Timothy Leary
#78. The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
Benjamin Rush
#79. In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
Elena Kagan
#80. We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.
Deborah King
#81. Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
Patricia Hampl
#82. Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.
Debasish Mridha
#83. When people we love and trust do not have a map of reality that is wide enough to fit our experiences, they often feel afraid for us. In their efforts to limit perceived harm, they end up instead limiting and inhibiting our personal growth.
Therese Rowley
#84. That's really the limiting factor to life support. Not the amount of oxygen you bring with you, but the amount of CO2 you can remove.
Andy Weir
#85. Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.
Cordelia Fine
#86. They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
Hal Elrod
#87. I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.
Brendon Burchard
#88. Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
John Gardner
#89. Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting.
Maddy Malhotra
#90. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
Ambrose Bierce
#91. Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.
Marty Rubin
#92. Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
David Cottrell
#93. Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
Tony Robbins
#94. I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
Mackenzie Davis
#95. Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.
Cory Booker
#96. One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.
Chuck Todd
#97. There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
Damian Woetzel
#98. I think, by applying our production principles. First, we must identify our limiting step: what is the "egg" in our work?
Andrew S. Grove
#99. I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week.
Jimmy Johnson
#100. I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.
Yoko Ono
