Dana Reeve Quotes

When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

World records are only borrowed.

People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.

Any side that wins 21 out of 22 rounds is clearly doing something extraordinary.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits