Quotes About Limitations

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

I can't go to the gym and sit on those machines - I'm medically unable to run because I'm just that wonky all over. I'd love to be a runner but I'm no good.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Therefore we see at once that there cannot be any such thing as free-will; the very words are a contradiction, because will is what we know, and everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by conditions of time, space and causality. ... To acquire freedom we have to get beyond the limitations of this universe; it cannot be found here.

She was also incapacitated by much of daily life and had 'no aptitude whatsoever' for domesticity.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

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

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

We live in a world that worships limitations

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations." "Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice. "But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.

A dog may understand dozens of commands, but it will never do anything but bark.

Start small, I always reminded myself. It was in keeping with the respect for labour that my parents had instilled in me. My father had often said, "No labour is an insult, the lowest form is dignified and worthy of respect. Start from the lowest rung." Think big I reminded myself. My father also used to say, "It is important to think without limitations. Confining ideas stunt potential.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.