#limits

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#decide #difference #just #know #life

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground. ↗

— William Scranton

#allowable #around #computer #going #ground

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#certainly #comedy #i #i think #limits

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#change

He took a step toward me and whispered in my ear "I really did love you." Leaving out the unsaid word; Once. "Me too." Once. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#love #pushing-the-limits #love

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #deep #effort #far-reaching #goal

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#limits #pain #strength #inspirational

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice. ↗

— Jim Geringer

#informed #limits #personal #personal choice #point

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#computer #forecasting #indeed #limits #modelling