#imitation

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#imitation #knowledge #illusion

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#differentiate #expert #felt #formulated #hardly

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. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#aspired #due #far #get #hear

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong. ↗

— Rick Perry

#does #god #good #greater #his

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. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#case #certain #comes #concentrating #difficulty

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. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#allows #apply #both #clutter #creating

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. ↗

— Robert Smith

#ever #grow #grow up #i #like

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#freedom #judgment #limitations #traps #within

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity. ↗

— Said Musa

#human #impact #limitation #more #negative

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises. ↗

— Gabrielle Giffords

#frailty #limitations #pride #weakness #courage