Quotes About Emulation

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

They love Jesus because he is what they are not and cannot ever be. They try to drink his strength and simplicity and spontaneous beauty into themselves. But they do not succeed. They cannot

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever; for me it was that first fall term in Hampden. So many things remain with me from that time, even now: those preferences in clothes and books and even food - aquired then and largely I must admit in adolescent emulation of the rest of the Greek class...

Lyndon was his father's shadow and replica.

He lived in her, his disciple. For her to think, now, as he would have done. And to act always thereafter.

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.

Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire, but we don't often emulate them, because quarrying, cutting, transporting, and fitting stone require a patience we no longer possess.

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

I wanna be Mahershala Ali in my next life. He's the man. He's a really genuine guy. He's a really great guy, one of my favorite people on this planet.

Jack has two boys, and when they grow up they're gonna wanna be like the D. I've already got the name: Mini D.

In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.

I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like.

I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'