Quotes About Limitation

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.

People who want to be singers can be nurtured and taught, and they can make great strides. But, the truth is, if you are completely tone deaf, it is never going to happen for you. It's just a reality of life. It's like me thinking I can be an Olympic swimmer. It ain't gonna happen!

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.

I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.

knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The sky's not for us. We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

Folded arms can't fly.

O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.

Thinking it's impossible makes it so.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

You're not flaming Bob the Builder, Poppy. There are some things is you can't fix.

Qué harías si pudieras volar? -preguntó la señora mientras desviaba la vista del pájaro y la posaba en mí. -¿Es una pregunta para el concurso? -escribí con una sonrisa. -Creo que ya estudiamos todo -respondió sonriendo entre dientes. -Tendría miedo de lanzarme -tecleé. -¿Por temor a caer? -preguntó. -No. Por temor a que la sensación de volar me resultara demasiado agradable -me llevó mucho tiempo escribir eso.

Many times when I didn't feel qualified, or like I didn't have the relational or emotional capacity, let alone the skillset, to speak to different people (it felt way out of my comfort zone), God's personality and his passion possessed me in a way that made it easy. I am not limited to my resources; I am limited to his, even when reaching outside my comfortable space.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!