#limitations

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." [What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929 (p. 17)] ↗

— Albert Einstein

#inspiration #knowledge #limitations #imagination

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#limitations #practicality #reading #work #intelligence

There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by. ↗

— Ron Hall

#limitations #life

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. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#any #anyone #around #been #cat

What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#imposed-boundaries #limitations #life

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#i #limitations #respect #them #use

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#acknowledged #actual #congress #disability #disease

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it. ↗

— John O'Toole

#advertising #american #american public #believe #between