Quotes About Limitations

There's something about having limited horizons that makes everything right around you appear to be monumental and important, even if in reality it is relatively insignificant.

Unless it is your ambition to become a nightclub performer and amaze people with great skills of memory, here is a simpler way to dramatically enhance both memory and accuracy: write things down. Writing is a powerful technology: why not use it? Use a pad of paper, or the back of your hand. Write it or type it. Use a phone or a computer. Dictate it. This is what technology is for. The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me.

Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

The mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations.

Varb?t t?p?c j?s esat tik liela auguma, ka dzerat t?ju ar pienu. M?s ??n? nedr?kstam dzert t?ju ar pienu; ja m?s izaugtu tik lieli, mums vairs neb?tu vietas un b?tu j?izce?o.

They have overcome their own limitations—whether physical challenges, economic hardship, past failures, or simply their own limiting beliefs—to achieve astounding success.

We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.

How can you become old in spirit? Only by carrying the past, isn't it? If you carry sixty years of burden with you, you're sixty years old. If you don't carry anything, you're like a newborn. The physical body may develop limitations, but the way you are has no limitations. It simply has no limitations. You are this many years old or that many years old simply because you carry that many years of garbage with you.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?

But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to if the eye and mind are saturated with them.

In this great day when most women wave banners of authenticity about our pasts, we crouch back from honesty about our presents. We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

In this great day when most women wave banners of authenticity about our pasts, we crouch back from honesty about our presents. We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Furthermore, to say God's work is good enough is not to say that once we receive our lives we cannot improve them. We are clearly invited to work in the garden. In both Old and New Testaments we are given exhortations to be diligent with the lives we have. But there is a big difference between self-improvement and re-creation. Self-improvement is the humble perspective of good stewards, while re-creation is a desperate effort to surpass our created limitations.

It didn't take very long for Arthur to realize that, when it came to real-world complexities, the elegant equations and the fancy mathematics he'd spent so much time on in school were no more than tools—and limited tools at that. The crucial skill was insight, the ability to see connections.

We should be encouraging our children to push themselves, to develop their talents and passions, but we should also be aware that the bromide "You can do anything" is wishful thinking.

answer?" I shrugged. "Answer shmanser. In the immortal words of Popeye, I yam what I yam. I know my patterns and limitations, needs and hang-ups. So I go on. Right? I endure. I enjoy what I can. There aren't any more forks in the road to take. Keep walking.

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.