Limiting Quotes

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

Destiny, Lives, Point

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

Vision, Surrealism, Destroys

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

Fear, Woman, Feeling

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

Happiness, Learned, Rather

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.
Kip Winger

Great, Fun, Black

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

Women, Men, Freedom

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.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Neglect, Limit

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.
Jerry Saltz

Matter, Opinions, Nobody

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

Lives, Pleasantly, Minimum

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J

Accept, Limits, Refuse

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.
Judith Wright

Feelings, Learned, Rather

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver

Good, Yourself, Making

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Life, Attitude, Short

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

Money, Government, Problems

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.
will.i.am

End, Actually, Goes

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.
Nancy Pelosi

Dreams, Work, Best

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.
Jaron Lanier

Alone, Human, Soul

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
Ritchie Blackmore

Found, Blues, Classical

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

Movies, Black, Eyes

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
Michael Ondaatje

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.
Tim Scott

Good, Government, Bad

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Bill Condon

Thought, Themselves, Anybody

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

Rather, Might, Expression

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson

Good, Design, Sometimes

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.
Saul Williams

Done, Gone, Rap

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.
Ludwig Quidde

Success, Fight, Law

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

Health, Moving, Care

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.
Joel Madden

Mind, Fact, Getting

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
William P. Leahy

Understand, Church, Clearly

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

Him, Artist, Hubris

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