#imitation

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#awful #came #collective #going #i

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#limitation #nonfiction #telling #telling the truth #truth

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ↗

— Herman Melville

#fail #imitation #originality #succeed #than

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#american #american spirit #because #before #books

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. ↗

— Iskander Mirza

#hypocrisy #limitation #without

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

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#art #artist #briefly #call #called

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