Quotes About Limitation

You risked your life once in a war that had enough bombing limitation rules to make sure you didn't hurt anyone but yourself.

People only have so much attention.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

In the age of AI, it's often said that data is the new oil. Yet the real limitation we face isn't the availability of data but of processing power.

I can definitely never run for president, that much is clear. I

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.

Restricting knowledge slows the pace of development.

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely.

The Führer's reply was to withdraw the German delegates from both the League of Nations and the Conference for Arms Limitation.

The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle!

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole è fra queste.

Ä°nsan yüreÄŸi ancak belli bir miktar umutsuzluk bar?nd?rabilir. Sünger bir kez emeceÄŸini emdi mi, üstünden deniz geçse oraya fazladan bir damla su bile sokamaz.

How can I possibly fold all that longing into something as small as words?

Il semplice fatto che l'amore esista non significa che io sia capace di provarlo.