Quotes About Limitations

We assume that rules will irremediably inhibit what would otherwise be the boundless and intrinsic creativity of our children, even though the scientific literature clearly indicates, first, that creativity beyond the trivial is shockingly rare96 and, second, that strict limitations facilitate rather than inhibit creative achievement.

What do you know about yourself? You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can't even set the clock on your microwave. Don't over-estimate your self-knowledge.

El sentido de nuestras limitaciones no es el sufrimiento; es la existencia misma. Se nos ha otorgado la capacidad soportar voluntariamente el peso terrible de nuestra mortalidad. Le damos la espalda a esa capacidad y nos degradamos a nosotros mismos porque tenemos miedo de la responsabilidad.

It is for this reason that we voluntarily and happily place limitations on ourselves. Every time we play a game, for example, we accept a set of arbitrary restrictions. We narrow and limit ourselves, and explore the possibilities thereby revealed. That is what makes the game.

If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.

Acabé dándome cuenta mientras pensaba en estas cosas de que aquello que se puede amar de verdad en una persona está indisociablemente unido a sus limitaciones.

Život je patnja. Buddha je to vrlo jasno rekao. Krš?ani to prikazuju slikovito, raspe?em samoga Boga. Židovska vjera obiluje prisje?anjima na tu istinu. Istovjetnost izme?u života i ograni?enja jedna je od primarnih i neizbježnih ?injenica postojanja. Ranjivost našega Bi?a ?ini nas podložnima bolima društvenoga prosu?ivanja, prijezira i neminovna sloma naših tijela.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Que las limitaciones del amor no arrojen un hechizo sobre las serias ambiciones de tu mente»

May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind.

The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.

Soon after we begin living we become aware of the confines of our prison. It takes us thirty years at the most to recognize the limits within which our possibilities will move. We take stock of reality, which is like measuring the length of the chain which binds our feet. Then we say: "Is this life? Nothing more than this? A closed cycle which is repeated, always identical?" This is a dangerous hour for every man.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestras convicciones más arraigadas, más indubitables, son las más sospechosas. Ellas constituyen nuestro límite, nuestros confines, nuestra prisión" (José Ortega y Gasset)

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constante, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constantemente, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist

The meaning of a work of art is what the artist wants to communicate to his public through the work, by using a specific language. Since every language has its limitations and its problems of expression, there will be obstacles to communicating certain contents: a work's value is to be found in the ingenuity, the originality, and perhaps the economy of the solutions the artist finds to overcome these obstacles.

The mind is the only thing about human beings that's worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag of skin, blood, hair, meat, bones and tubes? No wonder people can't get anything done, stuck for life with a parasite that has to be stuffed with food and protected from weather and germs all the time. And the fool thing wears out anyway—no matter how much you stuff and protect it! —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When we accept ourselves in all our weakness, flaws, and failings, we can begin to fulfill an even more challenging responsibility: accepting the weakness, limitations, and mixed-up-ed-ness of those we love and respect. Then and only then, it seems, do we become able to accept the weakness, defects, and shortcomings of those we find it difficult to love.

Überhaupt setzt die literarische Bildung Maßstäbe, die in der Realität nicht ausgefüllt werden können; das Spielfeld wird zu weit gesteckt.

the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party . . ., even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed."55