Quotes About Emulation

It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His

If you read it then you must become it.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

God is love, as we love we become like God

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

Music was more than just something I enjoyed listening to. I was fascinated by it. I'd watch some of my favourite artists and emulate everything they did.

I listen to Kenny Loggins, like - I want to be Kenny Loggins.

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

I had the Kobe jersey. I would do the Kobe walk. I would walk around the house doing the Kobe stare-down face. Anything you can name, I was idolizing him, trying to be like him.

All I used to want to do was shoot fadeaways like Kobe because he was my favorite player.

Then we started reading books, and would go out and pretend what we had read about, emulating some hero or heroine.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

what consistently works for others will almost always work for us.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

It didn't take me long to figure it out: I didn't want to meet the Beatles. I wanted to BE the Beatles.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

The difference is as basic as between a professional football player and a rabid fan. One is a performer in a harsh, unique corner of reality; the other is a cultist, a passive worshiper, and occasionally a sloppy emulator of a style that fascinates him because it is so hopelessly remote from the reality he wakes up to every morning.

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that young people are raised in educational communities that they admire and that they will seek to emulate or re-create for the rest of their lives.

I adored my brother when I was younger, so I wanted to do everything he did.