Pushing one's limits

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Press not a falling man too far!

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII

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Topic

Pushing one's limits

Speaker

Lord Chamberlain

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VIII

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1613 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

You should feel slightly incompetent at what you're trying to do. The minute you start to feel like an expert, what you really are is a hack.

Michael Cunningham

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Topic

Pushing one's limits Incompetence Expertise

Speaker

Michael Cunningham

Source

The Independent

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Cunningham, Michael. "Michael Cunningham Interview: Shining a Light on Ageing, Love, and Innocence." Interviewed by Hephzibah Anderson. Independent, 23 May 2014.

I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Topic

Pushing one's limits Personal growth

Speaker

Lucian Freud

Source

Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.