#imitation

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur. ↗

— Henry James

#greatness #imitation #art

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#continuation #cradle #danger #glamour #imitation

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#defined #imitation #imperfect #insight #literature

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#became #bill #bill clinton #clinton #credit

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. ↗

— Vic Snyder

#been #citizens #donate #donors #important

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#absurd #amendment #any #constitutionally #contests

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#freedom #judgment #limitations #traps #within

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

#conceived #faculties #god #infinite #limitation

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#even #imitation #improvement #itself #life

No man was ever great by imitation. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#great #imitation #man