#imitation

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#ago #awhile #encounter #ever #first

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

#any #defined #fully #goal #his

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

#already #any #defined #fully #goal

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ↗

— Mae West

#imitation #just #lady #model #real

People mistake their limitations for high standards. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#high standards #limitations #mistake #people #standards

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ↗

— James Thurber

#libel #limitations #only #rules #taste

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. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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