Quotes About Limitations

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.

Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.