#limitations

I refuse to accept that I have limitations beyond my own belief of boundaries. Perception is all that limits the mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dreams #goals #limitations #limits #perception

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

#anything #aspirations #because #between #else

What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#imposed-boundaries #limitations #life

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#creative person #herself #him #limitations #person

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

#among #breeze #flowers #i #just

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

#experience #half #hour #human #human experience

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#came #day #every #hour #life

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

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. ↗

— James Cook

#attention #just #limitations #never #once

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human-rights #limitations #personal-autonomy #personal-responsibility #freedom