Quotes About Limitations

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

You don't race cars, you race the rule book

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

In the same way, if we see our so-called limitations with clarity, precision, gentleness, goodheartedness, and kindness and, having seen them fully, then let go, open further, we begin to find that our world is more vast and more refreshing and fascinating than we had realized before. In other words, the key to feeling more whole and less shut off and shut down is to be able to see clearly who we are and what we're doing.

To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

The computer is a moron.

Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

Las afirmaciones de identidad no están libres de consecuencias. Limitan tanto como robustecen. Para mí, prefiero no tener una de esas identidades sencillas y públicas. No sé lo que soy, y no me apetece especialmente saberlo.

You did not kill those children, and you could not have saved them. There is a limit to the power of any single man, even a hero. You were the boy who fought the bear. Now you are the man who killed the king. Yet you are only a man. You are not responsible for the woes of the world or the evil of other men.

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?

Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.

How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges?

The human body has limitations; the human spirit is boundless.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

Only my penis is still free and happy, no good for sword fights and no good for any work, or even for hanging things on, or for digging trenches. Praise be to God that it is so.

Los verdaderos líderes son aquellos que conocen sus limitaciones y trabajan con ellas. Son fieles a sus palabras, predican con el ejemplo e inspiran a los demás a pasar a la acción por sí mismos.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

Beggars cannot be choosers.

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world-in its dramatic as well as its quiet times- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?