#imitation

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

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#life #limitations #much #understand #won

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. ↗

— Ernst Haas

#limitations #only #photography #see #you

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#assistance #because #condition #disability #full

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#becoming #civil #civil rights #community #country

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ↗

— Orson Welles

#art #enemy #limitations

..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

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation. ↗

— David Baker

#always #assimilation #ever #got #i

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#life #limitations #love #power #stand-out