Quotes About Limitations

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

There is no all-?purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do.

The only kind of questions he could answer were those that took "yes" or "no" for an answer — by shaking his head up and down or from side to side — and that limited them to about one out of every ten that they wanted to put to him. I saw red when I saw how helpless he was.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

People don't always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.

Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your dependence on God.

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

I can wade through the dark, but I can only see as far as the guttering candle allows me.

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.

We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

A few guttural words caused Helen's steps to slow as she neared the upstairs parlor. The sounds of Welsh curses had become quite familiar during the past week, as Mr. Winterborne grappled with the limitations of his injuries and the heavy leg cast.

All the people in your life are truly doing the best they can with what they have. People can only love you to the capacity that they are able to love themselves. They can only forgive and embrace you to the capacity that they are able to forgive and embrace themselves. They can only give you what they have the capacity to give. You may think that you deserve more, and you may be correct. But that means nothing if a person simply doesn't have the ability to give it to you.

Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.

I ponder how we can put a man on the moon, fly shuttles back and forth to outer space, send probes to Mars, and yet we can't traverse the boundaries in the human heart, fix what's wrong. How can things still be this way?

ponder how we can put a man on the moon, fly shuttles back and forth to outer space, send probes to Mars, and yet we can't traverse the boundaries in the human heart, fix what's wrong.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.