Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.
Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
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.
There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.
The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.
We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.
Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so. . . We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries. . . and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing. . . Only having one language is very limiting. . . You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking. . . Well, this isn't good for English.