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Quotes About Limitations

My shadow is only half of what it should be. Everyone has their shortcomings.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.
~ Haruki Murakami
After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren't so easy anymore — just as a fastball pitcher's speed starts to slip away with time. Of course, it's possible for people as they mature to make up for a decline in natural talent. Like when a fastball pitcher transforms himself into a cleverer pitcher who relies on changeups. But there is a limit. And there definitely is a sense of loss.
~ Haruki Murakami
People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and some cases distorts your logic.
~ Haruki Murakami
helping people overcome their limitations to become more successful at work is at the very heart of effective management.
~ Harvard Business School Press
When competencies become imprisoned, the people who carry the competencies do not get assigned to the most exciting opportunities, and their skills begin to atrophy.
~ Harvard Business School Press
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.
~ Helen Humphreys
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.
~ Helen Keller
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
~ Helen Keller
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
~ Helen Keller
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~ Helen Keller
Written reports stifle creativity.
~ Ross Perot
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
~ Barry Ritholtz
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
~ Etgar Keret
There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
~ Shawn Wayans
A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?
~ Freddie Wong
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.
~ Robert Sternberg
When you're with WWE, you are operating within very fine boundaries that you cannot step outside of.
~ Wade Barrett
When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing.
~ Kenny Omega
Anyone that's been with WWE, there's frustrations of feeling like you can only do so much. The women are told not to punch or to kick, to do power bombs and the power moves, and none of that exists in 'Lucha Underground.'
~ John Morrison
We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
~ Billy Beane
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
~ Pat Paulsen
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
~ Dana Perino
No one wants to stop paying football - it's just that your body can't. That's tragic.
~ Brett Goldstein