Quotes About Limitation

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

Our intellects, no matter how sharp, can no more grasp this than they can comprehend God.

I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

I love motocross and would love to have a go but I can't go anywhere near them in case I got injured.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

I'm not a writer. As for direction, I don't have the guts to do that. Still you can never say never.

I really only play shooters, which is a nice way to restrict the amount of gameplay in the house.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.