Quotes About Limitations

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

we are only horses, and don't know.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cramping are there, but both limit us. They keep us moving and writing in tight, worried ways.

They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cramping are there, but both limit us.

The one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems [is] that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggression and hypocrisy.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

you think anything is possible. But that isn't so. The world closes tight around this miracle soon enough; and you don't hope for other miracles.