I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
~By Orson Welles ~
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
~By James Tenney ~
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
~By James Thurber ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
~By Fred Allen ~
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~By Richard Bach ~
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
~By Lena Horne ~
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By John O'Toole ~
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~By John Morley ~
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
~By Anna Lindh ~
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
~By Ken Hensley ~
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
~By Steve Lacy ~
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
~By Willa Cather ~
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
~By Rick Rubin ~
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~By Victor Borge ~
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~By George Santayana ~
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
~By Paul Farmer ~
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
~By Willem Dafoe ~
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
~By Gene Ween ~
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
~By Aesop ~
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
~By Bill Griffith ~
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
~By James Cook ~
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
~By Lionel Blue ~
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
~By Fiona Apple ~
I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.
~By Ben Harper ~
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
~By Gary Lucas ~
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
~By Vic Snyder ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
~By Willie Stargell ~
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
~By Confucius ~
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
~By Robert Smith ~
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
~By Iskander Mirza ~
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
~By Said Musa ~
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
~By Gary Gygax ~
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
~By Vaughn Monroe ~
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
~By Origen ~
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
~By Laurie Anderson ~
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
~By John Dykstra ~
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
~By Ennio Morricone ~
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~By Mae West ~
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
~By Stephen R. Donaldson ~
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
~By Elihu Root ~
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
~By Voltaire ~
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
~By Mike Watt ~
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
No man was ever great by imitation.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
~By Earle Brown ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~By Richard Bach ~
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
~By Howard Gardner ~
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.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
Men must know their limitations.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
~By Johnny Cash ~
And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
~By Charles Fort ~
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