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 ~
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 ~
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
~By Iskander Mirza ~
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~By Richard Bach ~
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 ~
Men must know their limitations.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
In imagination, there's no limitation.
~By Mark Victor Hansen ~
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 ~
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
~By James Cook ~
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
~By Jean Toomer ~
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
~By Fiona Apple ~
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 ~
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
~By Greta Garbo ~
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
~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 ~
But out of limitations comes creativity.
~By Debbie Allen ~
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
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 ~
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~By Cavett Robert ~
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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 ~
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 ~
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
~By Anna H. Shaw ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.
~By Roy Horn ~
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 ~
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
~By Orhan Pamuk ~
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
~By Roy Moore ~
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
~By Brian Molko ~
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 ~
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 ~
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
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 ~
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
~By Brendan Francis ~
All art is but imitation of nature.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
~By Fred Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
~By Johann Georg Zimmermann ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
~By Willie Stargell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 think it's important to know your limitations too.
~By Kip Winger ~
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~By George Santayana ~
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
~By Milton Babbitt ~
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
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 ~
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
~By Said Musa ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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