Quotes About Limitation

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyi s?n?rland?rmak çok güçtür. Dünyay?, yaÅŸam? s?n?rland?ramay?z. Ä°yi kabul ettiÄŸimiz, tatl?, güzel dediÄŸimiz birçok davran??ta, duyguda yabanl?k vard?r. ÖrneÄŸin tutkuda; müzikte.

Most people who constantly say, "Let's be realistic," are really just living in fear, deathly afraid of being disappointed again. Out of that fear, they develop beliefs that cause them to hesitate, to not give their all—consequently they get limited results.

Don't spend it all in one place!

Remember, you know the answer, and the secret is simple: change your story, change your life. Divorce your story of limitation and marry the truth. You can make anything happen.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation and marry the story of the truth, and everything changes.

CHAPTER XLVI IT CANNOT BE ARRANGED

Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules.

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;

They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was no concern of theirs; it was something that had been shut out of their minds. Diaspar was all that existed, all that they needed, all that they could imagine. It mattered nothing to them that Man had once possessed the stars.

Many scientists flatly denied the possibility. They pointed out that Discovery, the fastest ship ever designed, would take twenty thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri — and millions of years to travel any appreciable distance across the Galaxy. Even if, during the centuries to come, propulsion systems improved out of all recognition, in the end they would meet the impassable barrier of the speed of light, which no material object could exceed.

I'm lighting a cigarette—I've always wanted to smoke in a space suit.

The stars are not for Man.

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Don't forget, Watson. You won't fail me. You never did fail me. No doubt there are natural enemies which limit the increase of the creatures. You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible! You'll convey all that is in your mind.

The truly terrible things are those one cannot alter, to which one is indefinitely committed.

Nunca dominaremos completamente a natureza, e nosso organismo, ele mesmo parte dessa natureza, será sempre uma construção transitória, limitada em adequação e desemprenho.

Limitation in the possibility of an enjoyment raises the value of the enjoyment.

none of us can know the mind of God. He's too big for that.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.