Quotes About Limitations

The first transatlantic cable was not laid until 1956, and it could transmit only 36 calls at any one time. As late as 1966, only 138 simultaneous calls could take place between Europe and all of North America,

Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

He can't walk down steps … can't walk down hills. [He's got] mental blocks … [He] can't handle numbers … they have no meaning to him.

Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own

we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant.

But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant. Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend. Even

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

we can't control what other people do,

Old age is but the reduced capacity of a failing machine.

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

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

La imposibilidad de poder replantearte el pasado y rectificarlo, es una de las limitaciones más crueles de la condición humana. La vida sería más llevadera si dispusiéramos de una segunda oportunidad.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

accepting limitations is liberating.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating. For

In many ways, Max Planck's obsession with understanding the Absolute underlies most human attempts to transcend the limitations of a body doomed to die after a short span of years.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Religion gives us forms and shapes for God to fit into, but He constantly proves to be bigger, wider, and deeper than our boxes. Just when we think we've figured out where God is going next, the wind blows somewhere else.