Quotes About Limitations

the confines of prison walls cannot impose boundaries on the flights of one's fantasy

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

Lock your freaks.

Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in.

Che vale poter vedere in quarant'anni dieci volte, in vece che una, le quattro parti del mondo? Né il mondo s'allarga né la vita s'allunga per ciò; e chi pensa troppo, correrà sempre fuori di quei limiti nell'infinito, nel mistero senza luce.

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

The Daughter was weary at her spinning, and reflected aloud, "What if we really could spin coarse straw into fine, pure strands of gold?" "If you could accomplish that miracle," her mother admonished, "the responsibility it would entail would tax and exhaust you — mind and body — far beyond the demands of the quotidian tasks you have been given. How blessed it is to live a human, limited life.

If you compare yourself with the limitations that came afterwards, if you think of how having one form excludes other forms, of the monotonous routine where you finally feel trapped, well, I don't mind saying, life was beautiful in those days.

The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

In most cases,our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

Code of the Grunt: You ain't Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.

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so any limitations to our mutual fertility fell squarely on my shoulders—or rather, on my testicles.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

One person simply can't be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

For some, their endless potential can be more frightening than their shortcomings,

I realize we could physically fit everybody there (Texas)... that doesn't mean they could all be fed, and clothed, and given iPhones

The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.

Film as a medium has limitations, you must understand its strong points and its shortcomings. Conflict and movement are close to its soul. But peace, hope and great truths are all of a static nature and can be but poorly served by the film medium.

From my academic life, I was used to being in the company of very smart people, but it was apparent from the beginning that this was as smart a bunch of men as I had ever encountered. That first impression never changed (though I was to learn, in the years ahead, the severe limitations of sheer intellect

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.