Quotes About Limitations

The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.

In real life humans didn't slay giants, because it was impossible. It would be like killing an apartment building with your bare hands.

What is the point of magic if we can't use it to fix real problems?

Conservatism is primarily based on a proper recognition of human limitations, and cannot be argued in a spirit of self-glorifying logic.

A personal over-concentration upon power as an end in itself is always suspect to the psychologist: he reads into it an attempt to conceal inferiority, impotence, anxiety. When this tendency is combined with inordinate ambitions, uncontrolled hostility and suspicion, and a loss of any sense of the subject's own limitations, leading to 'delusions of grandeur,' this becomes the typical syndrome of paranoia: one of the most difficult psychological states to exorcise.

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

Most people thought you just waved your hands and sim-sallah-bim, but it was a lot more complex than that. Sorcery was not so much doing what you wanted to do but doing what you could do—or ingeniously finding a way around the physical limitations of the craft.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn't have everything.

The devil had attacked me at my weakest point: my inability to realise the limitations of my sex.

Los límites de lo posible en las cosas morales son más estrechos de lo que pensamos; nuestras debilidades, nuestros vicios, nuestros prejuicios son lo que restringen

La liberté n'étant pas un fruit de tous les climats n'est pas à la portée de tous les peuples.

Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.