Quotes About Limitations

I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

It goes against every rule in the universe.' To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. 'Some rules are bigger than the universe.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

Small minded people rarely have any ideas, just a litany of complaints.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Each of the paradigms removes capabilities from the programmer. None of them adds new capabilities. Each imposes some kind of extra discipline that is negative in its intent. The paradigms tell us what not to do, more than they tell us what to do.

Some people do not become aware of inclinations or future career paths in their childhood, but instead are made painfully aware of their limitations.

Daily Law: Confront one of your limitations—one of the obstructions in your path—today. Break beyond it, climb over it, think your way around it. Don't run from it. It was created for you. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

Knowledge, experience, and theory have limitations: no amount of thinking in advance can prepare you for the chaos of life, for the infinite possibilities of the moment.

We all have limitations—our energies and skills will take us only so far. Danger comes from trying to surpass our limits.

Las personas pasivas generan un paisaje mental más bien árido. Dadas las limitaciones de sus actos y experiencias, muchas conexiones de su cerebro se esfuman por falta de uso.

It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.