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Letter "L" » limitations
«Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anything is achievable.»
«Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
absolutely, came, limitations, whence
«Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.»
Author: Jamie Paolinetti
| About:
Imagination,
Inspirational
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«Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.»
Author: Ramana Maharshi
| Keywords:
consciousness, limitations, originally, put on, take on, unlimited
«Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Government,
History,
Liberty,
Power
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«Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Understanding
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accordance, limitations, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, reasoning, strict, stricter, strictest, The Art of Reasoning
«Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.»
«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.»
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