#imitation

It is very difficult to undersatnd man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its limits. So if we are able to understand 25% of what is being said, even that should be deemed, as good communication skills are very good. Beyond this one should not even aspire for. ↗

— Aacharya Mahapragya

#communication #explanation #goal-setting #human-being #life

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities. ↗

— Rick Baker

#breathe #creature #eyes #got #i

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ↗

— Aesop

#hiss #imitation #men #often #real

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ↗

— Mary Astell

#education #foundation #ignorance #imitation #lay

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#care #extreme #extreme poverty #health #health care

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

#gender #imitates #imitation #kind #original

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#away #best #country #darth #darth vader

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately