Quotes About Limitation

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

Like, you just did not expect to feel this way but you do, and it's what writers for centuries have called "melancholia" but because you don't read books, your language is limited.

He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

The only limitation we have is the limitation of the mind

Employment is the greatest dream killer

Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box