Quotes About Emulation

Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That's when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.

To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my role. I don't emulate what she does, but her interpretation of Giselle is so fragile and sensitive and so tender. It constantly inspires me. And I feel like it's the other way around. We have a great rapport together.

When I indulge in envy, I envy everyone who has ever achieved anything.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

It's deep in human nature to look to the top to define our own behavior,

good communicators learn from others, by identifying and studying examples of successful expression in their chosen field.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way. But one thing the public did seem to want in 1880 was to emulate high society and the way high society lived. Very well. The Dakota would provide such emulation.

La imitación es la forma más sincera de halago.

There are those who will see your success as their failure.

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Dite alla gente di vestirsi come i loro eroi.

Why could she not emulate his sisters: marry and concentrate on babies? He gloomily suspected that she had that plan lined up for him.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

Well, I thought to myself if Rey Mysterio could do it, why can I do it? So I always took up his style, even as far as hitting the second rope.

My brother was playing hockey, tennis, badminton... I basically copied everything he did.

Everyone knows what a great player, as well as a person, David Beckham is. I am just hoping that I can learn from him. I know if I want to go far in my football career I have to do as well as him.

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why. I would sit there with the tight elastic thread of the birthday hat parting the pudge of my underchin, with the grainy frosting of the cake bluing my teeth, and I would try to figure out why it was fun. With Nick, I understood finally. Because he was so much fun. It was like dating a sea otter.