Quotes About Limitations

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

I don't think I have too many filmmaking years left since I hurt my spine and knee.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

"The best of men are just men at best.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.