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Quotes About Limitation

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
~ Elliot Page
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.
~ Amy Macdonald
I always wanted to make music but I cannot play any instrument.
~ Udo Kier
A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.
~ Vaclav Smil
Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.
~ Nikki Haley
That always seemed like the whole thing; they'll let you have stories, but you can't ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it's one of the charms of the place. Certain things don't have to be thought about carefully because you're always being pushed from behind. It's like a tunnel where there's no sky.
~ Eve Babitz
Time is my greatest enemy.
~ Evita Peron
your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.
~ Ezra F. Vogel
You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience." Cuza
~ F. Paul Wilson
La limitación, tanto de la inteligencia como de la voluntad, hace posible el ejercicio desviado de la libertad, en la elección del mal en cuanto bien aparente;
~ Fernando Ocariz Brana
No one keeps you out of your good but yourself.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Think of the joy of really being free forever, from the Pharaoh of the oppression. To have the idea of security, health, happiness and abundance established in the subconscious. It would mean a life free from all limitation!
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
~ Ford Madox Ford
The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Constraint inspires creativity
~ Biz Stone
Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions
~ Biz Stone
If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.
~ Biz Stone
At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.
~ Bjork
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
~ Blaise Pascal
You can't build a small giant if you're in an industry where your success depends on how big your company becomes.
~ Bo Burlingham
The point is, your growth is absolutely limited by your capital, or your ability to borrow capital.
~ Bo Burlingham
Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.
~ Bob Burton
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~ Bob Dylan