personal constraints Quotes

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

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.

All limitations are self-imposed.

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

No one can be all things, as we all know.

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

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

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.