Quotes About Limitation

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

This physics constrains all projects to obey an unassailable trade-off called the Iron Cross of project management. Good, fast, cheap, done: Pick any three you like. You can't have the fourth.

No matter how many times I cut this, its never long enough.

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

If we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure.

Didn't Cause it, can't Cure it, can't Control it.

The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the audience of this tale, numbers still are attached to objects.

The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do.

Människorna är oändligt glada om man lämnar dem i den situationen att de inte kan förverkliga sina idéer!

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know.

It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.

La frase no se puede convierte a la gente fuerte en débil, ciega a personas que pueden ver, entristece a la gente feliz, convierte a los valientes en cobardes, le quita a un genio su sagacidad, causa que la gente rica piense pobremente, y limita los logros de esa gran persona que vive dentro de todos nosotros".

by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work.

Padre Rico creía que la frase No puedo darme ese lujo cerraba tu mente, mientras que la pregunta ¿Qué puedo hacer para darme ese lujo? la abría a nuevas posibilidades.

a majority of people let their lack of money stop them from making a deal.

Small people remain small because they think small

It is your fear that makes you your own prisoner. It is your fear that locks you in your own cell, a prison that does not let the abundance of God in.

an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend.

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.