In imagination, there's no limitation.
~By Mark Victor Hansen ~
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
~By James Gunn ~
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
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 ~
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
~By Judith Butler ~
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 ~
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
~By Fiona Apple ~
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
~By Christian Slater ~
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
~By Bill Griffith ~
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
~By Helen Keller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
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 ~
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 ~
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
~By Orson Welles ~
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
~By Voltaire ~
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~By Mae West ~
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
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 ~
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
~By Greta Garbo ~
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
~By Brendan Francis ~
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
~By Milton Babbitt ~
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.
~By Robert Patterson ~
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~By John Morley ~
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 ~
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
~By Iskander Mirza ~
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
~By Aesop ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
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 ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
~By Ernst Haas ~
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's important to know your limitations too.
~By Kip Winger ~
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 ~
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
~By Michael Berryman ~
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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 ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.
~By Roy Horn ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
~By William Hamilton ~
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 ~
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
~By Stephen R. Donaldson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~By Richard Bach ~
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
~By Willie Stargell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All art is but imitation of nature.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
~By Les Brown ~
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
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 ~
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~By Cavett Robert ~
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 ~
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
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