Quotes About Limitation

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.

Right, right," I say, knowing that, one, I'll never be anywhere near one hundred and seventy feet deep, and two, I'll never forget I can't breathe without air.

For all her love of words, at times they're entirely insufficient.

Por mais que ame as palavras, por vezes elas são completamente insuficientes.

Avec le Néolithique, les hommes ne sont plus seulement prédateurs, ils deviennent producteurs. Ce n'est plus la carrying capacity de l'environnement qui limite leur nombre, mais leur capacité à produire, capacité qui évolue rapidement. Agriculture et élevage entraînent une expansion démographique spectaculaire.

That's the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you'll never know what was behind the door you didn't open.

All the world's a cage.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Von Liebig's Law of the Minimum states that if one nutrient doesn't reach the minimum required by a plant, then it doesn't matter how much more of the others you apply. In short, the barrel will only hold up to its lowest stave.

Fear is the number one reason why people never live up to their potential.

Pregnant women shouldn't be lifting dead bodies.

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado, la imaginación rodea el mundo".

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

some of us create our own prisons for ourselves, we fall into ways of being that we feel we can't change.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Any place that one could not leave was not large—particularly if one was a naturalist!

Can anyone ever know everything about another person?

You cannot fly into your own arms.

A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

not one man had ever crossed the island—for the simple reason that it could not be done.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?