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Quotes About Limitation

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.
~ China Machado
I can't swim.
~ Louis Walsh
I can't swim. I've got better, but I can't go out of my depth. As soon as I smell chlorine my heart starts racing.
~ Frank Skinner
I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.
~ Rulon Gardner
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
~ Esther Williams
The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
~ Lewis Gordon Pugh
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
~ Derek Walcott
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.
~ Remy de Gourmont
La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.
~ René Barjavel
We must in the end acknowledge the infirmity of our nature
~ Rene Descartes
Man, being finite in nature can only have knowledge perfectness of which is limited.
~ Rene Descartes
Midnight is not in everyman's reach.
~ Rene Char
Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.
~ Rex Warner
When you fall in love with life, every limitation disappears. You break the limitations on money, health, happiness, and the limits of joy in your relationships. Fall in love with life, unleash the power within you, and you will become unlimited and invincible!
~ Rhonda Byrne
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
~ Richard Bandler
As soon as we believe in something, we search for ways to prove it's true. What we are looking for here is to learn to doubt your limitations and be more certain of what is possible for you.
~ Richard Bandler
Najbardziej ogranicza nas wcale nie to, czego chcemy i czego nie mo?emy zrobi?. Ogranicza nas to, czego nigdy w ogóle nie braliÅ›my pod uwagÄ™".
~ Richard Bandler
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
~ Richard Bandler
Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark "Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think," surprise you? Evolution, so far, may possibly have blocked us from being able to think in some directions; there could be unthinkable thoughts.
~ Richard Hamming
he wrote in retirement: "Two magnitudes are complementary when the measurement of one of them prevents the accurate simultaneous measurement of the other.
~ Richard Rhodes
Preventing and limiting violence means protecting children from brutalization in a country where physically punishing children continues to be acceptable behavior.
~ Richard Rhodes
Grace is just the natural loving flow of things when we allow it, instead of resisting it. Sin is any cutting or limiting of that circuit.
~ Richard Rohr
All theologies are blasphemous in so far as they attempt to reduce God to something that can be known through the understanding by which we know other things.
~ Richard Rohr