Personal Limitations Quotes

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

It'd be better if I was 6-2, 220, but I'll work with what I've got.

The great scientist was offered the Presidency of the young state of Israel:] I am deeply moved ..., though also sad and abashed that it is impossible for me to accept this offer. Since all my life I have been dealing with the world of objects. I have neither the natural ability nor the experience necessary to deal with human beings and to carry out official functions.

I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so.

I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way: but I am not fit to be President.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

Most people are doing the best they can, given what they know and understand, including you. If they knew more and were aware of more, they would do things differently.

I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

I am not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect.

I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.

There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.