#imitation

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." ["Existence" (1975)] ↗

— Joanna Russ

#limitations #mind #thinking #imagination

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature. ... Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it. ↗

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

#intelligence #learning #limitations #intelligence

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#limitations #lucidity #philosophical #philosophy #life

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. ↗

— William James

#invention #life

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contentment #dictator #honest #humble #humility

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#limitations #mysteries #wisdom #self-knowledge

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it. ↗

— René Descartes

#infinity #limitations #reason #thought #nature

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#limitation #time #need

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities. ↗

— Rick Baker

#breathe #creature #eyes #got #i

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #beings #human #human being #human beings