“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: if you argue for your limitations they are yours
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Coyote ("What Is to Be Done?", p. 370)
Green Mars (1993)
Context: Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you have to argue point by point. Especially since the minimalists want to keep the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. No! If you want to make the minimum-state case, you have to argue it from the ground up.
“To know your limits you need to go beyond them.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”
First lines, Ch. 1
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)
Context: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. This city I am bringing you to is vast and intricate, and you have not been here before. You may imagine, from other stories you've read, that you know it well, but those stories flattered you, welcoming you as a friend, treating you as if you belonged. The truth is that you are an alien from another time and place altogether.
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin