Quotes About Limitation

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

I was a product of the late '70s and early '80s, so when we think of how we're so protective of our kids now, it's sad in a way. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we limit the development of our kids in a way.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

I don't have enough money to be a dreamer.

Toda a compreensão é imperfeita porque, quanto mais se expande, em maiores fronteiras confina com o incompreensível que a cerca.

A nossa alma e o céu e a terra bastam-nos.     Querer mais é perder isto, e ser infeliz.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.

Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And

N'être qu'un est une prison

Seré siempre el que esperó a que le abrieran la puerta, junto a un muro sin puerta

When I participate, although it seems that I'm expanding, I'm limiting myself. To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it would be morbid to attribute very much reality to them.

No solo quien nos odia o nos envidia nos limita y oprime; quien nos ama no menos nos limita.

The Gods are the incarnation of what we can never be. The weariness of all hypotheses …

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.