Quotes About Limitation

Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective

WHEN YOUR WORLD is small, you learn every inch of it. You can trace it in the dark; you navigate it in your sleep.

For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.

Why had I always believed that a frontier must, of necessity, be a physical obstacle?

You have to work [...] and rely to a certain degree on the limitation of things, often really good things are happening. Even if you had another possibility it wouldn't be better, but nonetheless you experience this limitation as a barrier. But I always think that any limitation makes your life easier.

Pick a genre Pick a word count Decide on the number of characters in your story Select a theme Give yourself a deadline for completing the story

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called "a clearly-defined world view.

Was mich so unruhig macht, ist die Unfähigkeit, mich zu beschränken oder, wie mein Agent Zohnerer sagen würde, zu konzentrieren.

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

For one awful, long moment she is hanging head-downward, wings open, like a turkey in a butcher's shop, only her head is turned right-way-up and she is seeing more than she has ever seen before in her whole short life. Her world was an aviary no larger than a living room. Then it was a box. But now it is this; and she can see everything:

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

6 Debes reconocer que cualquier clase de sacrificio no es sino una limitación que se le impone al acto de dar.

An aeroplane booms overhead. We follow its evolutions with our faces skyward, our necks twisted, our eyes watering at the piercing brightness of the sky. Lamuse declares to me, when we have brought our gaze back to earth, "Those machines 'll never become practical, never." "How can you say that? Look at the progress they've made already, and the speed of it." "Yes, but they'll stop there. They'll never do any better, never.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Man's spiritual life consists in the number and fulness of his correspondences with God. In order to develop these he may be constrained to insulate them, to enclose them from the other correspondences, to shut himself in with them. In many ways the limitation of the natural life is the necessary condition of the full enjoyment of the spiritual life. Natural Law, Mortification

If an eagle be imprisoned on the back of a coin, and the coin tossed into the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The logic of war is power, and power has no inherent limit. The logic of peace is proportion, and proportion implies limitation.

To the man with a hammer, it is said, all things look like nails. When brain surgeons look at brain scans they see things that they think require surgery and I am, alas, no exception.

do not understand, and perhaps never will. As the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane observed, it's not just that the universe might be stranger than we think, but that it might be stranger than we can think.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.