Quotes About Limitations

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

When opportunities and possibilities feel foreclosed upon, when you're living with limitations, as I was, you have to find creative workarounds to exist, to hold on to some sense of self, to explore new parts of yourself that are emerging.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

I've been able to accomplish goals that I set for myself, where in countries like Cuba you just don't get those opportunities.

I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

I can't sing or dance.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.