Perceived Limitations Quotes

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I just go: 'I'm a lot of things. Just because I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role.

In Israel, I think I have the image of an 'Ashkenazi woman' as a stereotype. Someone once told me that I look like a deodorant commercial. But my appearance is misleading; I can be emotionally aggressive, too, and in 'Law and Order,' I once played a murderer. I see no limitations. I see both my toughness and the softness.

How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.

I don't want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, 'Yo, he's an Asian rapper.'

I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

People do think I was a one-hit wonder, that I'm maybe not the kind of singer that I can really be - that impression is there. I have to work really hard to break down those walls.

I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.

I really don't understand because I love opera, because I respect the Michelangelos and da Vincis, that it should be shocking because I am a wrestler. Because I am a wrestler does it mean that I am some kind of a robot who only knows to go into the squared circle and pound on somebody?

I used to get typecast when I was younger.