Quotes About Emulation

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Worked examples allow your learners to borrow knowledge. By studying worked examples, learners can emulate how others perform a task.

The noblest kind retribution is to become not like your enemy

Cuando desees alegrar tu corazón, ponte a considerar la ventajosa superioridad de tus compañeros, por ejemplo, la laboriosidad de éste, la circunspección de aquél, la liberalidad de uno y cualquier prerrogativa de otro. Nada nos deleita tanto como los ejemplos de las virtudes que resplandecen en la conducta de los compañeros y nos entran por los ojos como apiñadas en tropel.

De beste manier om je op iemand te wreken, is niet te worden zoals hij.

En un mot, nos mains tâchent de faire dans la nature, pour ainsi dire, une autre nature.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

She was a more charitable person than I was; I admired her in that, but I could not emulate her.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

Stupid people usually can't bear it when others do something better than they do;