Limiting Quotes

My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don’t really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don’t really know where I would go. It’s not really a limiting factor for me.

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they’re in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You’re only limiting yourself. Open up to what’s out there because God made us all.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

I think, for an actor, variety is the spice of life. They should do all kinds of roles, so I don’t believe in limiting myself.

We need to prioritize ending the influence of corporate special interests and secret money on politicians by limiting the amount of money they can spend on political campaigns.

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it’s harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

I don’t like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It’s hip-hop. I’m a rapper.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I think there’s all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then you allow yourself to mold that thing that has been created by freedom and spontaneity and flexibility. That’s why I avoid limiting performances of actors and characters.

If you have a good product, like football, you should also think about limiting it to keep the quality high.

Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

I don’t just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don’t get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.

People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, on the first place, I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it’s too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven‘t run out of curiosity.

I’ve always been schizophrenic; I’ve never been interested in limiting myself.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That’s not how they are; that’s how you perceive them at that moment. It’s limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are ‘too big to fail’ is needed.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That’s what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations to make a profit, and that’s where you run into trouble.

It’s horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that’s incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

I’ve written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody‘s thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

I love a lot of music that’s considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that’s considered punk or considered rap. I don’t mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form – the one of the particles, the other of the waves – are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

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

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

Tradition matters. To me it’s not a limiting force; it’s a springboard.

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.

I don’t see why clothes have to be women’s or men’s. It seems pretty limiting. I buy women’s pants, women’s shoes – everything, really.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It’s a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I’ve played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn’t come close to describing who I really am.

I don’t think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.