Quotes about Limiting

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. Votes: 3

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. Votes: 3

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute Votes: 3

One of the biggest challenges in investing is that the opportunity set available today is not the complete opportunity set that should be considered. Limiting your opportunity set to the one immediately at hand would be like limiting your spouse to the students you met in high school Votes: 3

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers. Votes: 3

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. Votes: 2

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Votes: 2

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. Votes: 2

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. Votes: 2

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them. Votes: 2

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. Votes: 2

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. Votes: 2

Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health. Votes: 2

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. Votes: 2

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have. Votes: 2

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it. Votes: 2

Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done. Votes: 2

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them. Votes: 2

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. Votes: 2

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The thoughts and beliefs that you repeat in your mind when you are experiencing a negative situation become your reality. Your subconscious will make sure these limiting thoughts and beliefs are manifested. Votes: 1

Are your thoughts empowering or limiting? Votes: 0

The only thing limiting you is yourself. Votes: 0

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself. Votes: 0

Never curse yourself by limiting your students. Votes: 0

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth. Votes: 0

Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge. Votes: 0

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting. Votes: 0

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination. Votes: 0

I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration. Votes: 0

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. Votes: 0

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. Votes: 0

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another. Votes: 0

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. Votes: 0

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. Votes: 0

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself. Votes: 0

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life. Votes: 0

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. Votes: 0

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting. Votes: 0

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government. Votes: 0

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness. Votes: 0

By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others. Votes: 0

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless. Votes: 0

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Votes: 0

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know Votes: 0

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power. Votes: 0

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer. Votes: 0

All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs. Votes: 0

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with. Votes: 0

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with. Votes: 0

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors. Votes: 0

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. Votes: 0

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. Votes: 0

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. Votes: 0

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting. Votes: 0

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. Votes: 0

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too. Votes: 0

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories. Votes: 0

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. Votes: 0

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. Votes: 0

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. Votes: 0

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. Votes: 0

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change. Votes: 0

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. Votes: 0

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented. Votes: 0

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself. Votes: 0

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea. Votes: 0

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. Votes: 0

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about. Votes: 0

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry. Votes: 0

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. Votes: 0

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream. Votes: 0

What youths need to grow is the truth that will set them free from inimical lies and limiting ignorance Votes: 0

I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot. Votes: 0

Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly. Votes: 0

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. Votes: 0

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies. Votes: 0

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. Votes: 0

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere. Votes: 0

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. Votes: 0

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. Votes: 0

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do. Votes: 0

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. Votes: 0

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. Votes: 0

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting. Votes: 0

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. Votes: 0

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot. Votes: 0

If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. Votes: 0

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this Votes: 0

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. Votes: 0

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally... Votes: 0

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care. Votes: 0

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. Votes: 0

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. Votes: 0

Stop walking with a "˜calendar'. It's capable of ruining your fate, by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me. Votes: 0

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision. Votes: 0

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. Votes: 0

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever. Votes: 0

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship. Votes: 0

When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath. Votes: 0

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. Votes: 0

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction. Votes: 0

I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place. Votes: 0

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior. Votes: 0

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart. Votes: 0

Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses. Votes: 0

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else. Votes: 0

It's nice to say or it's great to ask, are we limiting opportunities for women? But do we even have each other's support, frankly, on our way there? Votes: 0

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing. Votes: 0

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected. Votes: 0

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. Votes: 0

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are. Votes: 0

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement. Votes: 0

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality Votes: 0

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting. Votes: 0

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes. Votes: 0

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained? Votes: 0

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event. Votes: 0

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity. Votes: 0

Trust that The Uni-verse knows your bills, knows you need to eat and knows your heart much better than even you do, so keep facing your fears and limiting beliefs daily. Votes: 0

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius. Votes: 0

... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. Votes: 0

My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping. Votes: 0

My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy. Votes: 0

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me. Votes: 0

The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day. Votes: 0

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues. Votes: 0

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience. Votes: 0

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. Votes: 0

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been more kind coverage among female journalists for what I was doing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success. Votes: 0

Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think. Votes: 0

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. Votes: 0

respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing. Votes: 0

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself. Votes: 0