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Quotes About Limitations

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
~ Cass Canfield
Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.
~ Tamera Mowry
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.
~ Yadier Molina
I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself - but there are some things I very clearly cannot.
~ Amanda Schull
One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
~ John Bytheway
I think there are some things that just cannot be fixed.
~ Judy Smith
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.
~ Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.
~ Mitch Albom
He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.
~ Mitch Albom
Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let's face it. I can't go shopping, I can't take care of the bank accounts, I can't take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time—and the reason—to do that." So, I said, in a reflexively cynical response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?
~ Mitch Albom
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do";
~ Mitch Albom
Accept what you are to do and what you are not able to do
~ Mitch Albom
They next faced the problem that confronted all young people in the city who wanted to continue in one another's company past a certain hour. During the day there were parks, and campuses, and restaurants, cafés. But at night, after dinner, unless one had access to a home where such things were safe and permitted, or had a car, there were few places to be alone.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?
~ Monica Ali
But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.
~ Monica Wood
Faccio dire agli altri quello che non posso dire altrettanto bene, sia per insufficienza del mio linguaggio sia per insufficienza del mio sentimento.
~ Montaigne
Oh, who am I lying to? My supply of grace wouldn't overflow an acorn cap.
~ Naomi Novik
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.
~ Naomi Wolf
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word impossible. He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done.
~ Napoleon Hill
A maior parte dos fracassos reais se deve a limitações que os homens impõem a si mesmos em suas próprias mentes.
~ Napoleon Hill
Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.
~ Napoleon Hill
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon