#imitation

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite. ↗

— William Blake

#imagination #limitation #possession #wishful-thinking #imagination

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

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#aside #copy #german #i #i am

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

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#limitations #mind #struggle #life

Through others we become ourselves. ↗

— Lev S. Vygotsky

#educatin #identity #imitation #psychology #self-awareness

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#anxiety #back #enjoy #focus #get

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#could #did #different #different types #going

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ↗

— James Thurber

#libel #limitations #only #rules #taste

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#i #know #limitations #look #reach