Quotes About Limitation

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

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

If the sky was the limit, none of our heroes would have reached the moon.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I dub only four hours a day for a Tamil film because my voice doesn't stay strong for long hours.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

Why do only a fairly minor number of individuals perish because they fail to endure the strain of living—because cognition gives them more than they can carry?" Zapffe's answer: "Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.