Quotes About Limitations

But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

Dios es más grande que cualquier circunstancia limitada de nuestro pasado; Dios es más grande que cualquier limitación que el mundo nos presente ahora. Las limitaciones sólo existen como un reto para que maduremos espiritualmente y nos demos cuenta de que, con la Gracia de Dios, podemos superarlas.

In it, Porphyry says about Pythagoras: He himself could hear the harmony of the Universe, and understood the music of the spheres, and the stars which move in concert with them, and which we cannot hear because of the limitations of our weak nature.

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot.

E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to find our bliss and rightful place in the order of things.

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

But here's the truth: the ultimate thing that stops most of us from making significant progress in our lives is not somebody else's limitations, but rather our own limiting perceptions or beliefs.

Often our resources are limited only by the questions we ask ourselves.

les impulsa a progresar hacia un criterio más alto, les ayuda a adoptar creencias nuevas y más poderosas que les permitan progresar más allá de sus viejas limitaciones, y apoya todo eso con habilidades y estrategias específicas necesarias para el éxito a lo largo de toda la vida.

La primera puerta representa el sistema de creencias de una persona. Lo que una persona cree, lo que juzga factible o no, en gran medida determina lo que es capaz de hacer o no.