Quotes About Emulation

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

I look at some of the best players around the world and sometimes I do try and bat like them.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying? Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

I guess its the same with all children really, they have this sort of pathetic longing to be like their parents were.

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.

I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

It's tough to step in the shoes of Paul George.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Yes, I mean, I can't match up to my mother's acting skills, actually both my parents. I just cannot match up to them. My mother was such a powerful and a respectable performer. They are actually overshadowing me and yes, I cannot be as good as them.

Be a model and don't wait to be modeled

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.

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.