Limitations Quotes
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
Richard Bach— 1977 Illusions.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
— 1961Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.
All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.
james van allen— Comments to an undergraduate physics class about transformers, Reach Into Space, Time, 1959-05-04.
Most of the network related programming in games has to do with providing a good interactive experience when playing over the internet. This matter is very different from serving web pages. The primary concern there is to handle connection latency, latency fluctuations, packet loss and bandwidth limitations, and pretty much hide all of that from the player's experience.
timothee besset— Quoted in Brian Boyko, "ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games" Network Performance Daily (2007-01-29)
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.
john kotter— Introduction to the 2002 edition, p. 12
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.
stanley milgram— 188
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
patañjali— As quoted by Wayne Dyer [1]
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.
gilbert keith chesterton— A Defence of Baby-Worship
Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.
john james cowperthwaite— February 26, 1964, page 51.
As a creative crystallizing of the movement beyond the state of Patriarchal Paralysis, this book is an act of Dis-possession; and hence, in a sense beyond the limitations of the label anti-male , it is absolutely Anti-androcrat, A-mazingly Anti-male, Furiously and Finally Female.
Mary Daly— p. 29. (Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978–1990))
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
anthony daniels— All Sex, All the Time
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.
friedrich hayek— "'Conscious' Direction and the Growth of Reason"p. 92
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
georg wilhelm friedrich hegel— As quoted in Inwardness and Existence (1989) by Walter A. Davis, p. 18
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
benjamin hoff— Cottleston Pie
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.
joseph e. stiglitz— "Bleakonomics" The New York Times Sunday Book Review (2007-09-30)
You are the architect of your own destiny ; you are the master of your own fate ; you are behind the steering wheel of your life . There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
brian tracy— The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 63
We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.
alan watts— (page 112) (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966))
'I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
jack white— "What's eating Jack? The Observer (Accessed January 20, 2007)
Renewable energy has its limitations and the government cannot put all its eggs in the same basket. We must develop different sources of energy, otherwise an energy crisis could result in a serious national security issue.
— Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: "Ma reiterates commitment to use of ‘green’ power" in The Taipei Times, 26 May 2013.
— Statement made during a visit to Chang-Kong Wind Power Station in Changhua County, Taiwan, 25 May 2013.
Most of those who say so easily that this is our way out do not, I am convinced, understand that fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, unaccustomed limitations on activity, are all necessary if we are to plan. This amounts, in fact, to the abandonment, finally, of laissez faire. It amounts, practically, to the abolition of "business".
— Rexford Guy Tugwell, "The Principle of Planning and the Institution of Laissez Faire", paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Economic Association; reported in The American Economic Review (March 1932), vol. 22, no. 1, supplement, p. 76.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce (1911), The Devil's Dictionary
The exceptional nature of its limitations places in a strong light the general conception that liberty of the press, historically considered and taken up by the Federal Constitution, has meant, principally, although not exclusively, immunity from previous restraints or censorship.
— Charles Evans Hughes, (Near v. Minnesota, 1931).
Organization charts are subject to important limitations. A chart shows only formal authority relationships and omits the many significant informal and informational relationships.
— Harold Koontz, Heinz Weihrich (2006) Essentials Of Management. p. 198
An important part of project management is keeping track of thoughts, assumptions, suggestions, limitations, and the myriad related details of the project.
— InfoWorld. 23 april 1990. Vol. 12, nr. 17. p.79
Through mantra, we can awaken the Divine light within us and expand beyond the limitations of space, direction and manifestation. Through mantra, one can learn to ride the waves of cosmic light and sound, going back to the Divine Word at the heart of the world. This is the cosmic form of Mantra Yoga known known only to Yogis who have gone beyond the body and mind.
— In p. 50 (Mantra Yoga and the Primal Sound: Secrets of Seed (Bija) Mantras)
Every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
— On First Principles, Bk. 1, ch. 5; vol. 1, p. 45.
I realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I must be exceedingly careful, prudent, as to what I say, and even more careful and prudent as to how I say it. I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think.
— Eugene V. Debs, speech to the Socialist party of Ohio state convention, Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918); republished in Jean Y. Tussey, ed., Eugene V. Debs Speaks (1970), p. 244. This was Debs's most famous speech. It was a socialist antiwar speech while the United States was at war, and it was used against him at his trial. Debs was convicted under the Espionage Law and sentenced to 10 years in prison. President Warren G. Harding commuted the sentence in 1921.
