Limits

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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

― Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

― Thomas J. Watson

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2015	In Time
2014	Robust Interconnectivity
2013	What Have We Here?
2012	Tributaries And Eddies
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2011	Penultimate

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

— Guy Finley

In these times – where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance – what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

— Guy Finley

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2012	A Short Course In Human Relations
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It isn’t the shoes, socks, clothes, or even the speed that makes me a runner. It’s running. I pay my membership dues every time I lace up my running shoes. I realize that every time I challenge myself to do more, struggle to get a little faster, or face the limits of my abilities, I am a runner.

— John “The Penguin” Bingham
From his book: “No Need For Speed“

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2020	Diets And Lifestyle Changes
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2019	The Right Questions
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2018	A Thought For Those Continuing To Support President Trump
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2017	Imagining Humor
2016	So Go On And Deal With It
2015	From A Letter To A Friend
2014	Your Part (Here)
2013	Complements
2012	Sound And Light
2011	Two Politicians Visit A Farm…
2010	Labor Day And Honorable Men

Rage is a dangerous emotion, not simply because it can be destructive but because it can be so easily satisfied with cheap targets. Like my friend who picks fights online, I’m a veteran. I know people who have been injured or killed overseas. I’ve seen the damage bombs wreak on the bodies of innocent civilians. And, yes, it fills me with rage. But if that rage is to mean anything, it means I cannot distract myself with the illusion of adjudicating past wrongs with artfully phrased put-downs. In a world where we are still at war, the most important question is, What do we do now? There the moral certainty of my rage must be met with humility about the limits of my knowledge.

— Phil Klay
From his Opinion / Editorial: “The Enduring Emptiness Of Our Public Rage“
Appearing in: Time Magazine; dtd: 5 November 2018
Online at: https://time.com/5434373/phil-klay-american-public-rage/

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2019	The Limits Of My Knowledge
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2012	Like You
2011	Got Days?
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Decimals have a point.
Calculus has its limits.
Geometry is just plane fun.
Polar coordinates aren’t just arctic fashions.

— Anonymous

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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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2016	But I Have Too Many Questions
2015	A New Friend
2014	Do I Have To Fall In Love?
2013	More Democracy, Please
2012	Speaking Of Love
2011	Limits