Quotes About Limitations

When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can't do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

MAKING AN EFFORT Our so-called limitations, I believe, apply to faculties we don't apply. We don't discover what we can't achieve until we make an effort not to try.

There are no restrictions to the determination, except those that we acknowledge.

Throughout history, human disclosure has not been able to portray the facts as they are, and this is the eternal truth that will remain to describe the deficit of human capabilities.

We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.

T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Why did the lamp go out? I shaded it with my cloak to save it from the wind, that is why the lamp went out. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.

The closest most people come to it is in having a child. And nowhere are our mistakes and limitations more plainly written than there!

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.