Quotes About Limitations

I feel like I'm 16 again — gas is cheap and I'm grounded.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.

Our only limiting factor is our false beliefs

The world is too complex, Simon argued, for our limited intelligence to understand fully. This means that very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information – a point nicely illustrated by the fact that the celebrated advent of the internet age does not seem to have improved the quality of our decisions, judging by the mess we are in today.

It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

Kalau kita tidak mencarinya, kita tidak akan menemukannya, dan kemampuan kita tetap tersembunyi. Pada akhirnya, kita hanya melihat keterbatasan-keterbatasan, bukan kemungkinan-kemungkinan.

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Nature, then, is incapable of conceiving what lies above nature. As a consequence, no creature can achieve divinization for itself naturally, simply because it cannot grasp God. It belongs wholly to God's grace to distribute divinization by grace, according to the measure of each being, to enlighten nature with supernatural light and to lift it above its own limitations by the superabundance of glory.45

The idea that God gives people what they deserve, that our misdeeds cause our misfortune, is a neat and attractive solution to the problem of evil at several levels, but it has a number of serious limitations. As we have seen, it teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt even where there is no basis for guilt. It makes people hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities.

A man has to know his limitations.

Ik wilde dat ik het vermogen had om uiting te geven aan mijn gevoelens. Jammer genoeg kan ik dat niet; maar ik troost mij met de gedachte, dat degene die het wel kan die gevoelens misschien niet bezit.

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

Furthermore, once we have a category, we often stop looking outside of the categories for meaning, as our formal system of carrots and sticks exists solely within the categories

I'd set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt, and anxiety. What I ended up with is the story of how we love each other in spite of immense limitations

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

there was something essential missing that prevented him from feeling content with his life, something he once had when he was on the UCLA track team. It was a sense of utterly consuming physical challenge, of pushing his limitations to the point of agony. The pain always ebbed, though, and left an afterglow of exhilaration that charged him until the next challenge, when he would give just a little bit more.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time

but you can't invent things like time,"Violet said. "You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.