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Quotes About Limitation

I just happened to see an ad saying 'Willing to train an assistant editor,' and I learned enough from that to go to NYU for just one summer course. That's all that I could afford.
~ Thelma Schoonmaker
I am not the only player who plays with both feet. There are a lot. Here at Barca, too. I have always, since I was young, wanted to play with both feet, not just one, because it limits you.
~ Ousmane Dembele
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.
~ Shirley Knight
I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.
~ Bernard Sumner
I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
~ Jay Kay
My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it's always hindered me.
~ Jimmy Bullard
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
~ Abu Bakr
I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.
~ Mike Patton
It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.
~ Dawn Richard
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.
~ Karen Blixen
Every view is peripheral now.
~ Karen Green
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.
~ Karen Marie Moning
That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
tiny mortals tampering with chariots of the gods.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You know I'd give you forever, but I don't have it to give.
~ Karen Robards
I have risen as far as this world will permit me to go," the doctor told the empty cave. "To travel farther, must I also invert myself entirely?
~ Karen Russell
Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.
~ Karl Jaspers
We can know more than we can tell.
~ Karl Polanyi
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
~ Karl Popper
One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.
~ Katherine Blake
The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.
~ Fynn
Korkudan bile olsa, insan kendinden kaçam?yor, ne o yöne ne bu yöne ç?k?? yok.
~ Gaétan Soucy
Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.
~ Gabrielle Zevin