Restrictive Thinking Quotes

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.

In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

Those that preach tolerance have become absolutely prescriptive in what's allowed to be thought.

I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.

I've always felt like, you know, there's this imaginary wall that we ourselves put up or others do by saying that we can't do something.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.