“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“There’s nowhere I won’t go. As long as it’s horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.”— Louis C.K, timeout.com
“So that here is a falling off. To the end of the inflamed limit, we lingered here, encouraged.”— Lisa Robertson, amazon.com
“Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”— John Nash, nobelprize.org
“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Embrace your constraints, whether they are creative, physical, economic, or self-imposed. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.”— Biz Stone, amazon.com
“The easiest way to avoid being overwhelmed is to create positive constraints: put up walls that dramatically restrict whatever it is that you’re trying to do.”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“You seek to vanquish and transcend the limited self whose limits make the game possible in the first place. It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Every limit presupposes something beyond it — hence the neutral illumination.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“A famous sonnet by William Wordsworth begins, 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; / And hermits are contented with their cells; / and students with their pensive citadels.' Wordsworth's point is that what nuns, hermits, and students do is facilitated rather than hindered by the confines o…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com
“I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”— Walt Disney, amazon.com