Quotes About Limitations

We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.