Quotes About Limitations

And snakes used to ruin him. Just the idea of them. Shane couldn't bear the thought of those delicate-looking reptiles trying their hardest to travel around their patch of forest while legless and footless. It broke his heart! They were so unfairly handicapped. He used to obsessively sketch pictures of snakes with four legs, until it occurred to him that he was, in fact, drawing lizards.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

None of us here have spent more than 90 percent of our adult life in the cages where the animals are.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

It can upset people when you exceed the limited expectations they've always had for you.)

Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.

Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the science. It is the artificial limitations that hamper us—and, through us, you.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides.

Ones convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it.

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.

Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.

Sometimes our little human splashings are not enough. However hard we try, however strong our heroic human wills (and us humans have such a capacity, such a heroic capacity for believing that the impossible might be possible), sometimes our ridiculously puny human arms are too weak. Sometimes the world is just too big for us, the hurricane too wild, the sea so huge, that it wears out even the bravest of hearts, the strongest of wills.

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.