Quotes About Limitation

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.

We are limited in joy, knowledge, and being, the three things people really want.

Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things. And even this universe may be a speck in a multitude of actual and possible universes.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

There's the hardest thing - when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.

Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, 'Hey, don't do that to me.'

You have to feel free enough to do what your body is telling you to do. Sometimes, though, the pressure of winning and the fear of defeat limit your performance.

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won't be able to keep up forever.

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.