One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a ‘means of livelihood’ while he waits to discover his ‘true vocation’. The world...

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge...

A paradox may be paradoctored.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

…But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of...

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in ‘measurements’ when he did not know what he...

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family...

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds,...

Human rights’ are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of...

I’d always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

… a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

There are no more ceilings over my dreams… They have no limit; they limitless! They are extra-large!

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may...

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That’s what is most important if you want to be free: respect for...

And I couldn’t make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren’t supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren’t supposed to dream big,...

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers...

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

The strength of a soul’s spirit is to bolster and foster the heart to weaken the mind’s limit.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room “in time” during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her...

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don’t do that,’ and...

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.