Quotes About Emulation

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

While I was passing through the age of "hero-worship" I found myself trying to imitate those whom I most admired. Moreover, I discovered that the element of FAITH, with which I endeavored to imitate my idols, gave me great capacity to do so quite successfully.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

right now,I am my father

I hated them because they had something I had not yet had, and I said to myself, I said to myself again, someday I will be as happy as any of you, you will see.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I just really try to model my game after Steph Curry.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

I watch a lot of players. Guys like Kenneth Faried, his motor. I'm trying to take that and put that into my game.

How strange, Popov thought. If the Irish didn't like the English, then why did they emulate their driving patterns?

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

I'd study the people around me for clues. Clues to figure out whom to emulate, how to dress, how to speak, how to act, how to dance. I'd grown up feeling unworthy and underloved. I wanted nothing more than to feel secure in myself—to feel that I was really good at something.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.

Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.