Quotes About Limitations

Why, Jon, why? his mother asked. Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers! I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them

No aprendas nada, y el próximo mundo será igual que éste, con las mismas limitaciones y pesos de plomo que superar

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Argue for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

Alle Ziffern sind Begrenzungen, Vollkommenheit aber ist grenzlos.

for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera.

I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity cooking and that is just not my field at all. The last time we had 12 for a sit-down dinner and I did all the cooking, and Paul and I did all the setting up, serving, and washing up afterwards, I said never again. I'll do a buffet, but I don't consider that civilized dining; it is feeding, and I like to sit down at a well-set table.

Flaubert le salían las palabras con facilidad; pero también supo ver la insuficiencia subyacente de la Palabra. Recuérdese su triste definición en Madame Bovary: «La palabra humana es como una caldera rota en la que tocamos melodías para que bailen los osos, cuando quisiéramos conmover a las estrellas.»

Happiness depends necessarily on the unreality of one plane of your life: in one area ( emotional, financial, professional ), you should be living beyond your resources.

I think that in life you have to discover what you're good at, recognise what you can't do, decide what you want, aim for it, and try not to regret things afterwards.

Can a split quill write fair script? Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire? Can a cripple please a lady?

One woman can't fix every wrong. One woman or one man can't help every soul in trouble. Doesn't matter how much you want to.

The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to do the same for another culture, however, it betrays its limitations, underdevelopment, semantic weakness.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.