Quotes About Emulation

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes? p. 6, Double Duce

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

there is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Putting his lips together David whistled a few soft, carefully modulated notes. Head cocked to one side, the alien watched and listened. Then it exhaled softly, trying to duplicate the sounds. Since it possessed a very different respiratory mechanism, it failed in the attempt. That did not matter to David. What was important and what prompted him to tears was the fact that the creature *tried*.

Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

The guys of Savino's generation liked what they saw in the movies and wanted to be that. So Lou ain't trying to be Lefty Ruggiero, he's trying to be Al Pacino being Lefty Ruggiero. He ain't trying to be Tommy DeSimone, he's going for Joe Pesci being Tommy DeSimone, not being Jake Amari but James Gandolfini.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

she's just done. I wish (and this is a thought I've had many, many times, too many times to count) I was more like Margot.

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Man transfers his own passions and qualities to the idol. The more he impoverishes himself, the greater and stronger becomes the idol.

Be like father, but don't do like father

There are only two possible outcomes whenever you compare yourself to another, vanity or bitterness, and both are without value.

She wanted to be like you." Be like me? A socially ignorant bystander to the world?

I didn't set out to be a Trump impressionist at all. It wasn't that I wanted to be Trump. It's that I was asking, 'What if Trump was me?'