Quotes About Limitation

Jack Welch, the architect of GE's turnaround, said it this way: "The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down."6 Welch's aim is not to find better ways to control workers but rather to liberate them.7 Welch's concept of a boundaryless organization is his way to liberate GE workers from the "chains" of command.

The cross means the acceptance of limitation on desire. Without establishing this for yourself, there can only be frustration and worse, for you simply cannot satisfy desire.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Precision can be suffocating

Just because the human mind can't imagine something happening … doesn't mean it won't.

origin: it is narrowing!

a reminder from God that humankind was not meant to understand all things.

Trish would have said impossible, but the I-word was banned here. Katherine considered it a dangerous mind-set in a field that often transformed preconceived falsehoods into confirmed truths.

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?

For the Hindu the creation was not a bringing into being of the wonder of the world. Rather it was a dismemberment, a disintegration of the original Oneness. For him the Creation seemed not the expression of a rational, benevolent Maker in wondrous new forms but a fragmenting of the unity of nature into countless limited forms. The Hindu saw the creation of our world as "the self-limitation of the transcendent.

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

The Spandakarika, "the chant of tremoring sacred vibration," one of the most beautiful and most profound Shaivist texts, says: "Tremoring Sacred Vibration, the very site of creation and return, is devoid of all limitation because its nature is devoid of form.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

Fear is the hightest fence.

There are those have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.