Quotes About Limitations

I had a perfectly serviceable bike, but I rarely got to use it because it was a regular motorcycle and therefore too slow. My travel speed was too limited by things like traffic, weather, and the laws of physics. The rest of Nemesis and Co. didn't share my limitations. Apparently,

I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.

Empathy is limited as well in that it focuses on specific individuals. Its spotlight nature renders it innumerate and myopic: It doesn't resonate properly to the effects of our actions on groups of people, and it is insensitive to statistical data and estimated costs and benefits.

empathy distorts our moral judgments in pretty much the same way that prejudice does. Empathy is limited as well in that it focuses on specific individuals. Its spotlight nature renders it innumerate and myopic: It doesn't resonate properly to the effects of our actions on groups of people, and it is insensitive to statistical data and estimated costs and benefits

THIS BRAIN-AS-MUSCLE THEORY captures everyday experience in an elegant way. But it has some serious limitations. The claim about glucose is the weakest part

ABA regulations prohibit students from working more than 20 hours per week during law school

Behavioral scientists are not likely to agree, because such a performance can't be repeated with the true scientific method, under laboratory conditions. But the laboratory is a very limited place to learn anything but rudimentary facts about life and living.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Lord. I must recognize that God, in his awesome glory, is the only being in the universe who exists in timelessness. He has created me to live in and for a certain time and place. I must do all he has called me to do within the limits of the time he has given me.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

But hold fast. Before you become too flushed at the prospect of starring nightly in your own private pornographic films, there are limitations.

You just call if you have any other problems," the fire marshall said. "Only – there's one thing we don't do. We don't do cats in trees. Everybody thinks we do, but we don't. You have a cat in a tree, don't call us.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." ( America's Medieval Women , Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

We all have to recognize—no matter how great our strength," Truman declared, "that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it.

Wisdom teaches us to embrace both the adequacy and the limitations of our God-talk, to keep the two in tension. Perhaps accepting that paradox is true faith.

We can't get our minds around God. I don't think the Christian faith is fundamentally rational, by which I mean it cannot be captured fully by our rational faculties—and in fact, more often than not, confounds them. A God who can be comfortably captured in our minds, with little else for us to find out apart from an occasional adjustment, is no God at all. Expecting faith in God to be rational is often more the problem than the solution.

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.