Quotes About Limited

a lot of books to read but time is limited

The state is a terrible concretization,but if such things begin to concretize it is the very devil, as Nietzsche feels […] But surely the state is not the word of God. It is the invention of the many and therefore dangerous and poisonous; it is a devilish invention replacing the eternal plan of God that should rule the world. It is man instead of the divine competence, the limited mind instead of the infinite mind, things based upon temporal assumptions instead of upon eternal verities.

the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited capacity of our imagination.

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

By making the time tradeoff explicit and by indicating a willingness to contribute time now, I make it clear that it is a problem of limited time, not a problem of limited respect for the other person.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

From his limited experience with them, funeral homes were like fast-food restaurants—they all kind of looked the same. Then again, he guessed that made sense. Just like there were only so many ways to doctor up a burger, he imagined dead bodies were likewise.

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

My attention span was not great.

I think a pitcher in baseball is the most relatable position to a specialist in football, because you get a limited opportunity to prove your worth to the team.

Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.