Quotes About Limitations

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.

I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

Educated people recognise their limitations but focus on their strengths.

These women, for all their superb drafsmanship and compositional skill, remained minor painters because they had "lifted" a set of traditions and a view of the world that was inauthentic for them. They worked within the limits of what had been defined as female by a male tradition: they saw women through male eyes, painted a male's idea of female.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few

Erickson is careful to elicit signs of limitations, rigidities, narrow "sets." Then, using the patients' own beliefs, he will set about getting them to break the prohibitions.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

In the sixteenth century in England, dictionaries such as we would recognize today simply did not exist. If the language that so inspired Shakespeare had limits, if its words had definable origins, spellings, pronunciations, meanings—then no single book existed that established them, defined them, and set them down.

Possibilities will only be overpowered by the negative thoughts.

We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

I've been patient. I've let you run. But I'm not letting you run any longer.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.