#imitation

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#bad #britain #desperate #film #film industry

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#learning #limitations #never #our #powers

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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#man #opinions #attitude

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

#models #reading #style #writing #death

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#life

I refuse to accept that I have limitations beyond my own belief of boundaries. Perception is all that limits the mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dreams #goals #limitations #limits #perception

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

#free-will #freedom #lack-of-vision #limitations #peer-pressure

They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see the world. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#horizon #limitations #outside-the-box #see-the-world #stuck

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#humor #imitation #humor