Quotes About Emulation

Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns.

Unfortunately, most Americans think that they are emulating the rich by immediately consuming any upward swing in their cash flow.

When an aspirational looks at a Mercedes Millionaire, he only sees what is on display. He focuses on the leaves of the oak tree, not its roots. But the values and work habits of millionaires, like the roots of the oak, are what support their lifestyles (the leaves), not the other way around. Who should the aspirational seek to emulate instead? The Toyota Millionaire. This advice may be painful for some hyperspenders.

Unfortunately, most Americans think that they are emulating the rich by immediately consuming any upward swing in their cash flow. But the millionaire-next-door

here's the core argument of Rule #2: You shouldn't just envy the craftsman mindset, you should emulate it. In other words, I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can't ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer. This

And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.

I don't mind being a bit like you. I hope you don't mind being a bit like me.

Byzantium was both a source to emulate and a foil against which to define the distinctiveness of the Muslim regime.

She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.

I wanted to be like Tupac.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn't be.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Shania Twain. I would always go sing the song 'Honey I'm Home.' I was, like, 12, and I'm singing about coming home from work and PMS and stuff.

It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

When we do something good, people immediately follow it.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.