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Quotes About Limitations

We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We don't know what things LOOK like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things ARE like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
He was maxed out. He had no resources left to do anything else. That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. Vivek
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
~ Rick Derringer
Every great dream has no defined parameters, out of fear we set the limitations.
~ Wayne Chirisa
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.
~ Debasish Mridha
When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success.
~ Debasish Mridha
The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.
~ Clyde Lee Dennis
Know the limitations of your mind, and then excel them.Know the limitations of your heart, and then surpass them.Know the limitations of your soul, and then transcend them.
~ Matshona Dhiliwayo
Don't let other people's limitations limit you. Go for what you really want ... You just might get it!
~ Sheri Fink
I can't"… "It's not possible"… "I'm not good enough"... ~ These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present.
~ Steve Maraboli
We're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life.
~ Huseyn Raza
I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren't coming from their labels, but from my own.
~ Steve Maraboli
He says: 'The capitalistic world killed the artist in me.' He sees as coming from outside all that comes from inside. I know the artist in him must have been very weak to be defeated by this obstacle at all. Limitations, restrictions, defeats, come from within. I am fully responsible for my own restrictions.
~ Anais Nin
All the tragedy lay in trying to fit a boundless and insatiable love into human proportions, into one love.
~ Anais Nin
You might as well expect of Brancusi that he give us his masterpieces in fried bread crumbs or apple sauce. Can't be done.
~ Anais Nin
Cannot or will not accept himself. How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?
~ Anais Nin
the real world just won't let us produce much that's truly perfect, particularly not bug-free software. Time, technology, and temperament all conspire against us.
~ Andrew Hunt