Quotes About Limitation

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

So much universe, and so little time.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.

Met de komst van de woorden verliezen we het oorspronkelijke gevoel, dacht ze. Het geeft een veilig gevoel, dat is waar. Alleen de dingen die een naam hebben gekregen, worden werkelijk voor ons. Werkelijk en begrensd.

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we're small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we're magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.

Sometimes I feel like we've just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That's how it would seem to us when we looked back.

Tant que tu ne veux pas ce dont tu n'as pas besoin, tout ira bien. Tant que tu ne veux pas ce que tu ne peux pas obtenir.

Borges's ethnocentric limitation does not detract from his many other admirable qualities, but it is best not to sidestep it when giving a comprehensive appraisal of his work. Certainly, it is a limitation that offers further proof of his humanity because, as has been said over and over again, there is no such thing as absolute perfection in this world, not even in the world of a creative artist like Borges, who comes as close as anyone to achieving it.

La libertad está estrechamente ligada a la coerción, es decir a aquello que la niega o limita.

How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon ("Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long," wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with astounding confidence in The ABCs of the Cosmos [2003]), and yet mere human beings stayed so fuzzy, beyond all calculation?

objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.' Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace.

Rohr said that dualistic thinking is necessary for us to live/survive, but there comes a point where it can go no further, it hits the ceiling, especially when it comes to describing spirituality or God.

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

We do need reminding, not of what God can do, but of what he cannot do, or will not, which is to catch time in its free fall and stick a nickel's worth of sense into our days.