Quotes About Limitations

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

The moral achievement of statesmen must be judged in terms which take account of the limitations of human society which the statesman must, and the prophet need not, consider.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.

It is almost as if the Greeks, at a time when they were about to disappear from history, wished to avenge themselves for their own incomprehension by imposing on a whole section of mankind the limitations of their own mental horizons.

I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can.

The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations." Lester Levenson, from Will Power audio

if we limited ourselves to good ideas, nothing of any worth would ever be accomplished.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Real people have trouble with long division if they don't have a calculator, sometimes forget their spouse's birthday, and have a hangover on New Year's Day.

It's at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.

Smartphones are miracles, and they've turned us into gods. But in one simple respect, they're primitive: you can't slam down the receiver.

Stanley decided in 1892 to find out if there were limitations on the level of high-voltage power that could be transmitted.

Organized religion is an accountability system that holds your feet to the fire long enough to know what the issues really are, who God might just be, and what your own limitations might also be.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.

most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.

Heroes can only thrive where ignorance reduces history to mythology. They. cannot survive the coldly critical temper of modern thought when it is functioning normally, nor can they be worshipped by a generation which has every facility for determining their foibles and analyzing their limitations.

Swords can't solve every problem.

She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.