101 Limiting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill

Happiness Seek Rather Attempting Learned Limiting Than Them Satisfy Desires

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali

Vision Our Considers Destroys Destructive Shackles Only Limiting Surrealism

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. Mikhail Bakunin

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity. Robert Rauschenberg

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. Simone de Beauvoir

Man Woman Obligation Human Being Fear Feeling Heterosexuality Restraint Ideal Without Limiting Itself Human Being Either Loving Capable Should Homosexuality

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. Jill McCorkle

Freedom Thoughts You World Opportunity Freedom Of Speech Build Before Think Negatives Say Hatch Potential Take Ideas Around Limiting Lot Denying Even Expression Away Speech

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. Philippe Petit

Life You Mistake People Personality Think Unlimited Would Perceive Something Magnificent How Making Limiting Front Them Moment Describe

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. Albert Einstein

Way Destiny Physical Case Comprehensive More Point Could Fairer Limiting Than Any Which Should Theory Lives

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity. Bellamy Young

Life Time You Walk Think Ways Paradigm Some Through Participate Longevity Terms Empowering How Limiting Then Really Choose Actor

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect. Karen Salmansohn

Work Love You Respect Yourself Important Complain Stay Wounds About More Merely Toxic Heal Limiting Doing Expand Person Far Your Show Beliefs Inner Need

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace. Raheem DeVaughn

Life Truth Peace Balance Truth Is Too Much Long Too Our Our Lives We Cannot Constant Seems Having Both Throws Without Limiting Off Anything Cannot Little Personally Much Aspects Therefore Search Professionally Lives Inner Inner Peace

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp

People Other Pleasantly Minimum Recommend Scant Involvement Limiting Lives

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. Iain Duncan Smith

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy. Alex Wolff

People Enemy Own Worst Limiting Very Often Themselves

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. Alice McDermott

You Before Whatever Way Adjective Some Russian Writer Put Limiting Feminist Any Going Whether Noun Jewish

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium. Anita Sarkeesian

Generation Women Try Young YouTube Other Medium Ways My Generation Perfect Share Academia Limited How Limiting Disconnected Feminist Wanted Frustrated Inaccessible Young Women Lens Then Theory Media Present Bring Sociological

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman

Time People Problem Mirror Looking Spend City About Write New Like Parties Limiting Go York Just New York New York City So Much Time The Problem With Literary Them Much Who Novels

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. Aunjanue Ellis

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No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government. Bob Menendez

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I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create. Brian Chesky

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. Brian Ferneyhough

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