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"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
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"You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone."
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"God is helpless in our area of ignorance."
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"No matter how rich a person is, his resources are limited."
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"There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding."
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"You cannot become great by working for salary."
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"A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity."
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"Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations."
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"We see an entire planet which has many limitations."
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"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language."
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"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
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"I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."
Sight
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."
People
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
Money
"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
Limitation
"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station."
Dream
"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."
Deep
"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
Talent
"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."
Death
"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
Right
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
Time
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