#imitation

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#limitations #practicality #reading #work #intelligence

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#difference #imitation #individuality #conformity

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. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#acknowledged #actual #congress #disability #disease

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#i #know #limitations #look #reach

The worst acting is about imitation. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#acting #imitation #worst

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#except #limitations #mind #those

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#imitation #rudeness #weak

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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#abstract art #aesthetic #art #aware #become

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ↗

— Richard Bach

#enough #limitations #sure #your #yours

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #imitation #surpasses #truth