Limiting Factor Quotes

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Our biggest risk is ourselves.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

The only thing that limits you right now is you.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.