Quotes About Limitation

As club members know, the very purpose of a club is exclusion and size limitation.

Stálin não poderia ter existido em um município".

Los hallazgos de Popper y de Poincaré limitan nuestra capacidad para ver en el futuro, haciendo de éste un reflejo muy complicado del pasado, si es que existe tal reflejo.

they were of no use to anyone outside IBM.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

When we see how little we can express, it is a wonder that any man ever takes up a pen a second time.

a boat towing a whale could go no faster than one mile per hour. It

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

We are so limited. As a species. As individuals. Not only can't we see the future, we can't even see the present for what it is. We are too clouded by the things we want and the things we fear. But worse than any other blindness is that we can't see the consequences of our actions.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

Life is Tuesday afternoon in a cage.

Give a man four walls long enough and it is possible for him to own the world.

Nature's success stories, they are like Gause's protozoans; the world is their petri dish. Their populations grow at a terrific rate; they take over large areas, engulfing their environment as if no force opposed them. Then they hit a barrier. They drown in their own wastes. They starve from lack of food. Something figures out how to eat them.

What Vogt saw in Peru would crystallize his picture of the world and the human place in it—a vision of limitation. It would bring him to the Prophet's essential belief: humans have no special dispensation to escape biological constraints.

all the fossil fuels humankind will ever have are already here, waiting to be extracted from the ground—in contrast to food, which is grown every season from the soil, and freshwater, which is drawn in constant but limited amounts from rivers, lakes, and aquifers.

The impossibility of passing beyond slash-and-burn, Meggers said, was a consequence of a more general "law of environmental limitation of culture." And she stated the law, italicizing its importance: "The level to which a culture can develop is dependent upon the agricultural potentiality of the environment it occupies

the mountain between us is one i cannot climb .

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation.

And then the colossal success of modern natural science and the associated technology can lead us to feel that it unlocks all mysteries, that it will ultimately explain everything, that human science must be developed on the same basic plan, or even ultimately reduced to physics, or at least organic chemistry. And

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.