Quotes About Limitation

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

'What do you fear my lady?' 'A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

You cannot love someone unless you understand you can't love everyone

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called "working memory" that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any one time.

I can't swim farther than from here to the far side of a whiskey glass.

Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund

This is the first mistake God make. Time. God was a fool to create time. It's the one thing that even he run out of. But me beyond time. Me in the now, which is now which is also then. Then is also soon and soon might as well be if.

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway.

We can change not only our behavior but how we define ourselves. When we put ourselves in a box marked "That's not me," we ensure that we'll never get out of it.

and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is "How should I know?"… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Please don't ask me to feel an emotion I am incapable of feeling for you.

My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.

Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky?

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

We determine scope at the beginning of system development, put a box around it, and figure out how long that scope will take to develop. This is the wrong approach.