Limited Capacity Quotes

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing power. One could switch to a computer with even more storage, but no matter how large an amount of storage space the computer has, there will still exist some tasks that are beyond its ability.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

I can't do too many films.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.