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Limitations
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“I could never work with great spirit in any material unless I knew that the amount of it was limited—I had to be hedged in by a boundary of either space or material, in order to awaken the feeling of creative excitement.”
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“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
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“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
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“... I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.”
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“Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament”
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“When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.”
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“... there is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.”
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“ To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.”
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“A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.”
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“Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.”
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“When I was young, my producer, George Tyler, told me that were I four inches taller I could become one of the greatest actresses of my time. I decided to lick my size. A string of teachers pulled and stretched till I felt I was in a medieval torture chamber. I gained nary an inch — but my posture become military. I became the tallest five-foot woman in the world. And my refusal to be limited by my limitations enabled me to play Mary of Scotland, one of the tallest queens in history.”
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“Oh, the glory of setting your own bounds and leaping around within them!”
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“... art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.”
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“... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.”
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“The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.”
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“Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.”
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“... sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.”
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“We all have limits. A characteristic of the personally powerful person is the ability to recognize, accept, and respect those limits.”
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“I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.”
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“... the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.”
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“To know one's limitations is a good and necessary thing for effective work in life. Now that I know what I can't do, I shall put more determination and whole-souled devotion in the work I can do.”
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“The human race wished me to accept the limitations with which it had thoughtfully provided me.”
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