#imitation

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#influence #inspiration #inspirational

Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#intelligence #intelligence

... 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

Fake sUCKs! ↗

— Toba Beta

#imitation #life #real #truth #life

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. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#any #anyone #around #been #cat

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#limitation #truth #words #men

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#i #limitations #respect #them #use

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

— Orhan Pamuk

#difference #imitation #individuality #conformity

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#limitations-of-knowledge #tribalism #arrogance

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#imitations #usually