Quotes About Limitation

Poetry isn't hard, it's impossible.

Her eyes were narrowed as if they were endlessly trying to exclude most of what they saw.

I'd say, 'Trane, man, why are you doing that, beating on your chest and howling in the microphone?'" Ali remembered in an interview. "He'd say, 'Man, I can't find nothing else to play on the horn.' He exhausted the saxophone. He couldn't find nothing else to play … he ran out of horn.

and in fact lacked the authority to do so,

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Your party man, however excellent his intentions may be, is always opposed to any limitation of sovereignty. He regards himself as the next in succession, and handles gently the property that is to come to him, even while his opponents are its tenants.

Sovereignty has only a limited and relative existence. At the point where independence and individual existence begin, the jurisdiction of sovereignty ends.

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Transformation is forbidden.

God's linguistic being is the word. All human language is only reflection of the word in name. Name is no closer to the word than knowledge to creation. The infinity of all human language always remains limited and analytical in nature in comparison to the absolutely unlimited and creative infinity of the divine word.

A quotation is what a speaker wants to say--unlike a soundbite which is all that an interviewer allows you to say.

You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro's release.

I feel I could come out of the routes better, but because of the hips, I don't come out as well as I can.

A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

The only person holding you back is you.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.