Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Growth may be everything, but it’s not the only thing.

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.