Limitations Quotes
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
your victim(death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
-electrons deifying one razorblade
into a mountainrange;lenses extend…
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Tags: Change, Limitations
Posted in e. e. Cummings | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
And I do ask myself that, every day. I try to make the answer yes, even if it requires saying the word no and disappointing someone.
My experience was about letting go. It was about really experiencing all that was happening at the deepest…
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Tags: Cancer, Goals, Limitations
Posted in Sheryl Crow | 4 Comments »
Friday, January 1st, 2010
“Be supportive,” my mom said. “If you love her, support her.”
And so I did that. I spent that week teaching, hanging out in an office up the hall from Jai. I stopped by a couple of times, however, just to see if she was all right. “I just…
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Tags: Focus, Goals, Limitations
Posted in Randy Pausch | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken…
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Tags: Limitations, Marriage
Posted in William Shakespeare | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 19th, 2009
The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison to some extent keeps pace with the seasons, cropping…
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Tags: Awareness, Life, Limitations, Walden
Posted in Henry David Thoreau | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Meaning: once
you’ve swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates…
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Tags: Limitations, Motivation
Posted in Kay Ryan | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
No matter how fast you run,
your shadow more than keeps up.
Sometimes, it’s in front!
Only full, overhead sun
diminishes your shadow.
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Tags: Awareness, Limitations
Posted in Rumi | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Spielberg’s examination of irresponsible parent figures and broken families, from The Sugarland Express to Schindler’s List, has led him to film terrifying images of the primal trauma of children being separated from their parents, and
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Tags: Character, Limitations
Posted in Steven Spielberg | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
But if you ignore What’s There and try to lift someone’s car out of a ditch, what sort of conditions will you be in after a while? And even if you have more muscle than anyone alive, you still can’t push over a freight train. The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Tags: Buddhism, Knowledge, Limitations, Tao, Wisdom
Posted in Benjamin Hoff | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life…
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Tags: Life, Limitations, Stress
Posted in M. Scott Peck | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
I may be writing for a very few persons, maybe only one, no more is to be expected. To the few, or the one, I would finally say, learn to think photographically and not in terms of other media, then you will have something to say which has not already been…
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Tags: Creativity, Growth, Limitations, Photography
Posted in Edward Weston | 2 Comments »