#imitation

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #just #limitations #my own #own

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#diversion #fighting #imitation #men #most

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#around #bit #end #english #favor

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#eyes #flattery #hills #imitation

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#applied #blend #blow #boldly #completely

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#individuality #invention #beauty

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#exercise #forge #limitations #limits #perceptions