Quotes About Limitation

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

A thousand men can't undress a naked man.

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

problema es que son demasiados —dice Bev Shaw—. Es imposible que lo entiendan, y tampoco tenemos manera de decírselo. Son demasiados, según nuestro criterio, que no es el suyo. Si pudieran, se multiplicarían sin cesar hasta llenar la tierra.

Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes? Try a brick wall.

How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they controlled.

There was no tracking the precise words, but there probably weren't any. Sometimes language couldn't go far enough. All you could do was scream.

Torturing yourself for what you cannot do prevents you from achieving all you can do. It is that simple.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'.

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation at all because I don't create the type of music that would generally be created by musicians that work with digital recording studios, and/or digital equipment, as far as production is concerned.

I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

I don't mind getting typecast as long as it is not overpowering me as an actor.

Naw, I ain't never been out the country. I been a felon for a minute, so there's all types of restrictions on my movement, where I can go.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.