Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
A. R. Rahman
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
A. S. Byatt
Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.
Don't try to kid yourself that your game is about pace if it isn't. If you're a big guy like me you need to look at how similarly built players use that physical presence to influence a game. Accept that your build may have some limitations - but plenty of plus points too.
Defy the limitations people put on you.
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
Adnan Sami
I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.
Adrian Younge
I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation at all because I don't create the type of music that would generally be created by musicians that work with digital recording studios, and/or digital equipment, as far as production is concerned.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
Al Sharpton
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
Alan Rickman
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny
When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.
Alice Coltrane
I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
Amanda Peet
My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.
Amanda Seales
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.
Amitava Kumar
If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
Amy Purdy
We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.
I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
He knows my limitations and where I'm a good wife and a good mom.
I learned that you can accomplish so much, no matter what the limitations may be. You just gotta believe to achieve.
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.
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.
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.
As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I've seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms - and the constitutional limitations on the FBI's investigative power - to their advantage.
What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
