Quotes About Emulation

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is 'Thou shalt not question!

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There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.

I grew up watching the Williams sisters. I did a lot of research on Serena and kind of stole some things from her.

There was no saying I could ever step in and do what John does, because it'd be really hard to be John Williams.

I can remember watching Federer win Grand Slams on TV when I was a kid trying to put myself in his shoes.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

When I was younger, I had two players: Luke Shaw and Gareth Bale. When Shaw was at Southampton, he was a left-back, and I loved watching him bomb up and down the wing, create goals, score goals, so I think I try to emulate that. Gareth Bale - same thing, really.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine.

The Christian paradise is a worthy emulation of the Muslim paradise; and as to Buddha's nirvana it is only a conceit of paralytics.

She hadn't dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid's lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.

McMahon made use of Veblen's conception of emulation in consumption, whereas Kyrk adopted Mitchell's view that notions of rationality derived from business calculation of profit cannot be applied to households controlled by other standards (1923, p. 144).

your responsibility is simply to find how things work and those who are already successful then model their beliefs, behaviour, attitude, philosophies and actions and you'll get similar results

Improve yourself. You can become what you admire most in life. By admiring the quality of excellence in other people, and practicing that same quality, you too can become exceptional.

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.