Top 111 Limiting Quotes

I think CGI is interesting, but it’s too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Ben Wheatley
Tradition matters. To me it’s not a limiting force; it’s a springboard.
Chris Thile
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.
Max Born
It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity – ethnic, cultural, religious – in many political arrangements.
Ross Douthat
One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That’s what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.
Charlotte Caffey
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
Jerry Saltz
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing – and to some extent limiting – my vision.
Spalding Gray
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
Steve Albini
You’ve got to distribute the tyre life over the stint, I think that’s the main limiting factor, more than car balance.
Nico Hulkenberg
If I’m not playing good, it’s just because I’m not playing good, not because my body is limiting me.
Manu Ginobili
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
Kip Winger
It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm

It’s not that I don’t want to become famous or that I’m obsessed by my work as an actress, but it’s all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.
Sarah Polley
Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it’s infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.
Nathan Englander
Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
Charles Platt
We must ensure that girls do not close off career paths by limiting the subjects that they study – this is why continuing to study science, technology, engineering, and maths is so important.
Nicky Morgan
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they’re mental giants, but it’s very limiting.
Larry Wilcox
I don’t want to put myself in a small block. That will be limiting myself and no actor wants to do that.
Shefali Shah
Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is – beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.
Karen Salmansohn
I think – a lot of times in hip-hop, especially – artists get kind of pigeonholed into being ‘the guy,’ and it’s kind of limiting in a way.
MF Doom
When I was 18, and my looks were what I was – and all that I was – it did feel very limiting.
Christy Turlington
Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives – some limiting, others illuminating.
Sarah McBride
We’re professionals, everybody scores. It’s just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.
Jabari Parker
All too often, government’s response to social breakdown has been a classic case of ‘patching’ – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
I don’t categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.
Vicky Kaushal
Think about old people; think about young people, those with immune system problems. They can’t really protect themselves well against the flu, so by you limiting the spread of the flu and getting vaccinated, you’re helping protect them as well.
Mikhail Varshavski
Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.
Conor McGregor
Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let’s expand choice rather than limiting it. Let’s create jobs instead of destroying them. And let’s bring down the costs instead of driving them up.
Rob Portman
Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.
Chelsea Handler
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
I don’t just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don’t get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
Mackenzie Davis
There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
Tim Scott
Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.
Glenn Kelman
Football can be played in different ways and the more ways you know, the better you will be. If you know only one way, you’re limiting your possibilities.
Gianfranco Zola
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
I’ve always been schizophrenic; I’ve never been interested in limiting myself.
Griffin Dunne
Political oppositionary activity on the Russian Internet caused the government to pass laws limiting both service operators and users. As a result, the Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages.
Pavel Durov
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
Michael Ondaatje
I don’t like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It’s hip-hop. I’m a rapper.
Andy Mineo
Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.
Joseph Stiglitz
I love playing video games, but I’m regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.
Anita Sarkeesian
The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.
Sherrod Brown
Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take grea

Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I’ve played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn’t come close to describing who I really am.
Nick Foles
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
will.i.am
Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.
Margaret Cuomo
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
Dorothea Lange
Those people who shun us just because of the label we’re on, or the fact that we’ve got a video out there that’s getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren’t keeping an open mind.
Joel Madden
By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.
Johan Rockstrom
Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.
Manila Luzon
I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you’re an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
Bellamy Young
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I’m very acutely aware that most people can’t, so I try to give the situation that depth.
Jim Beaver
The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S.
Jan C. Ting
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
Judith Wright
The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
Mike Fitzpatrick