Quotes About Limitation

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

But at least I am in a place larger than a teacup. I once dwelt in a cup of tea, and on that occasion, I sensed the constraints of the space.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Most of us reject or manipulate our environments to avoid any emotional interaction that would contradict our early conception of reality, and this fact of human nature may be the single most delimiting factor for all psychotherapies

Our embodied and relational minds are the source of our selves, serving to limit and liberate who we become. When any of a combination of challenges to our minds bombards our development, conflicts may arise that bring great suffering and stifle our sense of freedom and connection.

WRITER: But tell me before you go. What was the worst thing about being down here? AGNES: Just existing. Knowing my sight was blurred by my eyes, my hearing dulled by my ears, and my bright thought trapped in the grey maze of a brain. Have you seen a brain?

ter uma idéia do mundo, de certa maneira, é coisa fácil, todo o mundo tem, geralmente uma idéia circunscrita à sua aldeia, limitada ao torrão, às coisas tangíveis e medíocres que cada um tem diante dos olhos, e essa idéia do mundo, mesquinha, limitada, cheia de sebo familiar, costuma sobreviver e adquirir, com o passar do tempo, autoridade e eloqüência.

What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.

in a world where vast geographical spaces could suddenly shrink to the dimensions of a coffin

Lo que no puede ser no puede ser y además es imposible.

What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.

To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

For time is the great enslaver of us all.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

It's too beautiful for English to explain

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

You cannot do more with less.

He couldn't swim.