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 ~
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
~By Ramana Maharshi ~
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
~By Voltaire ~
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
~By Les Brown ~
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
~By John Berger ~
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
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 ~
The worst acting is about imitation.
~By Paul Guilfoyle ~
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
But out of limitations comes creativity.
~By Debbie Allen ~
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
~By Dennis Chavez ~
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 ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.
~By David Friedman ~
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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.
~By Cleveland Amory ~
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
~By Kevin Costner ~
The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
~By Marv Levy ~
For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
~By David Baker ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
~By James Fenton ~
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 ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
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 ~
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
~By Johann Georg Zimmermann ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
~By Aesop ~
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
~By Tom Selleck ~
Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
~By James L. Buckley ~
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 ~
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
~By Michael Berryman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men must know their limitations.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
~By James Cook ~
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.
~By Cavett Robert ~
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 ~
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
~By Hayden Christensen ~
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
~By William Hamilton ~
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
~By Jackie Joyner-Kersee ~
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
~By Roy Moore ~
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
~By Tyrese Gibson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~By Richard Bach ~
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 ~
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 ~
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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 ~
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
~By Jean Toomer ~
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
~By John Yoo ~
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
~By Anna H. Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
~By Orson Welles ~
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
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 ~
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
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 ~
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
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