Quotes About Limitation

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

To some people, the impossible is impossible.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.