Quotes About Limitations

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.

Ages 50+. — The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

The doctor takes care of you but he is not God.

Iz iskustva je znao kako štetni, i po društvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ograni?enosti neograni?eno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u ta?nost svakog svog suda i zaklju?ka.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

It's a damn small world when it sucks.

When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. 

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

I can barely use my iPhone. I can't do Facebook, can't do Twitter, can't do Instagram, none of it.

When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

We knew we wanted the 'magic' in our show to be different than the typical wand-wielding spell-casting fare. For us, it had to be natural and physical, with a source and rules and limitations - and most importantly it had to be a skill rather than just a power, something that a practitioner had to learn and strive for.

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.

In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.