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Quotes About Limitation

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
~ Thomas Reed
Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with. But I've never played a gay role before, and I didn't want to be limited by some strange perception.
~ Dan Amboyer
What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
~ Jeff Buckley
When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they're successful at the moment, because if they start struggling and tumbling, they can lose their confidence, but also, they may not create a growth mindset environment for others.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
~ Hippocrates
Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.
~ Miguel McKelvey
I would love to see Bellator come up and offer an opportunity for competition. Then, fighters could negotiate contracts, and they would not be limited to having only one opportunity, one option, where you have to take what's given to you.
~ Ken Shamrock
When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.
~ Robby Gordon
It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.
~ Varg Vikernes
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
~ Kevin Kelly
I haven't felt like I ever had a chance to blossom into the player and the person I want to be in Orlando. It's almost like I've been held down every time.
~ Penny Hardaway
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~ E. Y. Harburg
So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.
~ Shawn Fanning
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
~ Kurt Elling
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
~ Robert Smithson
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
~ Huston Smith
He was tired of having only three channels.
~ Unknown
Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.
~ Unknown
Soy lo suficientemente artista para dibujar libremente con mi imaginación. La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado. La imaginación abarca el mundo".
~ Tony Buzan
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be
~ Tony Robbins
any strength overused ultimately becomes a liability.
~ Unknown
Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.
~ Tony Stewart