Quotes About Limitations

I just feel like with my size, I wasn't blessed with extra long arms, so I feel like with me not being on the taller side and shorter side when it comes to arm length, I feel like I need to be as versatile as I can.

Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

What a frail thing a human being is—and without the Passenger, that is all I was, a poor imitation of a human being. Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.

We don't have enough time to move fast

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Being only a chemist hampers me.

Being only a chemist hampers me." I read the prescription. It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

It could be easy to get frustrated or discouraged when it comes to educating students with disabilities. But that's because there are too often artificial barriers and roadblocks that limit your ability to focus on meeting their individual needs.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.