Quotes About Limitations

She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.

There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.

I'm learning that I don't have to prove myself. And despite my superwoman complex, which got me into all kinds of situations, I'm not able to do all things.

Friend, we are all human, and the bit of sense any one of us might have is of little or no use when the passions rage and by the constraints of being human we are put under duress." [...] And we parted, not having understood one other. But then here on earth no one ever easily understands anyone else.

You become what you think. All limitations are self imposed. There is no failure, only feedback. Your imagination is infinite.

Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

It was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

When] we practice science (and this is true of all our experience), we are always decoding a part of nature which is not complete. We simply cannot get out of our own finiteness.

By naming the parshah after Korach, the Torah endorses his commendable traits of aspiring to higher goals and of seeking immediate redemption. These are timeless goals for all of us, even while retaining the caution of our limitations on the practical level.

Metaphysics is a closed system;

Life, it is true, is a process of decisions and alternatives, the conscious awareness and acceptance of limitations. Experience, nevertheless, to say nothing of history, seems clearly to indicate that it is not possible to banish or to falsify any human need without ourselves undergoing falsification and loss.

I've got to accept limitations before I can discover my possibilities.

So much the better — so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I know we're not going undefeated. I know I'm not going to throw a touchdown every game.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.

Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.