Quotes About Limitations

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

I've always said the one change that would've been nice is if I'd been a bit faster - like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!

I'm not the fastest guy.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

Sometimes when you're playing certain festivals you're no' allowed to announce other dates, if you know what I mean?

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

With rivers, you don't have a lot of room to work, and with the bigger fish that I'm catching, you might have just a few feet to work with.

You know, you can only play just so much golf or go fishing just so often.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.

I've been told what I can't do my whole life.

We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that's when things get interesting.