Quotes About Limitation

LeBron is one of the greats. He's going to hit tough shots. You have to be able to live with them and limit everyone else around him.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three.

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

Nothing can grow under big trees.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.