Quotes and Sayings about Limitations
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
- Cleveland Amory
(Related: Time, Cats, Limitations, Patience)
"It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?"
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Limitations)
"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Limitations)
"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Politics, Husband, Limitations)
"The new limitations are the human ones of perception."
- Milton Babbitt
(Related: Perception, Limitations)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Limitations)
"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: Government, War, Limitations, Question, Will, World, World war)
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Art, Limitations, Thinking)
"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Gay, Limitations, Now, Religious, World)
"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."
- Victor Borge
(Related: Humor, Truth, Aspirations, Limitations, Logic, Man)
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment."
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
(Related: Society, Congress, Disability, Disease, Limitations, Myths)
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
- Les Brown
(Related: Life, Limitations)
"Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Encouraging, Circumstances, Limitations, May, Office)
"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Argument, Concern, Difficulty, Limitations, May, Temptations, Welfare)
"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
- Johnny Cash
(Related: Limitations)
"And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Anxiety, Focus, Limitations, Old, Voice)
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Talent, Character, Artist, Lies, Limitations, Writer)
"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual."
- Dennis Chavez
(Related: Freedom, Limitations, Man, Voice)
"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Work, Limitations, Needs, Privacy, Self, Writer)
"Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: Care, Cats, Dogs, Limitations, Population, Rules)
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
- Confucius
(Related: Men, Ability, Fact, Limitations, Man)
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- James Cook
(Related: Attention, Limitations, Will)
"If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Life, Limitations)
"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Limitations)
"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Church, Culture, Limitations, Supernatural)
"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Men, Nature, Blood, Class, Culture, Human nature, Humanism, Humanity, Language, Limitations)
"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
- Stephen R. Donaldson
(Related: Limitations, Respect)
"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: Change, People, Dance, Dancing, Limitations)
"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Technology, Content, Limitations)
"Men must know their limitations."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Men, Limitations)
"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Ideas, Blame, Countries, Doctors, Limitations, Medicine, World)
"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Care, Extreme, Limitations, Poverty, Promise)
"I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge."
- Joseph Fiennes
(Related: Challenge, Limitations)
"If you accept your limitations you go beyond them."
- Brendan Francis
(Related: Limitations)
"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
- David Friedman
(Related: Work, Efficiency, Help, Limitations)
"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think."
- Greta Garbo
(Related: Limitations)
"I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Environmental, Limitations, Parents)
"A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films."
- Tyrese Gibson
(Related: Actors, Limitations, Nothing)
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Limitations, Man, Perfection)
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
- Ernst Haas
(Related: Limitations, Photography)
"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Limitations, Meeting, Race, Responsibility, Security)
"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Music, Time, Limitations, Now, Songs)
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Limitations, Mind)
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Genius, Limitations, May, Stupidity)
"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."
- Gerald Jampolsky
(Related: Limitations, Self)
"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Science, Limitations)
"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities."
- Terry Josephson
(Related: Limitations, Possibilities, Thinking)
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Civil rights, Community, Country, Limitations)
"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Experience, Joy, Limitations, Richness)
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Flowers, Limitations, Yearning)
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Poetry, Power, Arrogance, Concern, Diversity, Existence, Limitations, Man, Richness)
"The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them."
- Marv Levy
(Related: Age, Limitations, Nothing, Old)
"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Politics, Limitations, Present, World)
"I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime."
- Gary Lucas
(Related: Limitations, Now, Play, Pretty)
"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
- Ramana Maharshi
(Related: Consciousness, Limitations, Mind)
"You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Limitations, Unworthy, Will)
"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Learning, Limitations)
"We see an entire planet which has many limitations."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Limitations)
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
- John Morley
(Related: Character, Limitations, Man)
"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice."
- Origen
(Related: Being, Justice, Limitations, Reason, Rectitude, Sin)
"I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it."
- John O'Toole
(Related: People, Advertising, American, Limitations, Public, Understanding, Will)
"Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Limitations)
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Being, Difficulty, Film, Limitations)
"Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations."
- Cavett Robert
(Related: Life, Goal, Limitations, Man)
"Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations."
- Cavett Robert
(Related: Life, Goal, Limitations)
"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully."
- Fred Saberhagen
(Related: Work, Character, Computer, Limitations, Pretty)
"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Limitations)
"Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about."
- Stanley Schmidt
(Related: Ideas, Fun, Limitations, Play)
"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."
- Ayrton Senna
(Related: Life, Body, Learning, Limitations)
"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life."
- Anna H. Shaw
(Related: Life, Day, Limitations)
"Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
- Christian Slater
(Related: Art, Life, Limitations, Sense)
"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Limitations)
"It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors."
- Vic Snyder
(Related: Age, Limitations)
"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Comparisons, Freedom, Judgment, Limitations)
"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."
- Barbra Streisand
(Related: Limitations, Want)
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
(Related: Flaws, Language, Limitations, Programming)
"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style."
- James Tenney
(Related: Limitations, Style)
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
- James Thurber
(Related: Comedy, Limitations, Rules, Taste)
"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations."
- Glenn Tipton
(Related: Ability, Limitations, Songs)
"People mistake their limitations for high standards."
- Jean Toomer
(Related: Mistake, People, Limitations)
"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: Agreement, Force, Limitations)
"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."
- Douglas Trumbull
(Related: Technology, Work, Consistency, Limitations)
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Body, Expectations, Limitations, Mind, Will)
"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself."
- Dionne Warwick
(Related: Life, Belief, Limitations, Parents, Possibilities, Stability)
"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Limitations)
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Art, Absence, Enemy, Limitations)
"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Humanity, Justice, Limitations)
"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."
- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Limitations, World, Writing)
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
- Woodrow Wilson
(Related: History, Government, Power, Liberty, Limitations)
"I think it's important to know your limitations too."
- Kip Winger
(Related: Limitations)
"It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists."
- John Yoo
(Related: War, Limitations, Sense, Worth)