Quotes About Emulation

My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.

Nothing sharpens sight like envy

As long as we deny a person or group the claim to be as right and as real as we are, so long may we hold this dreamlike claim for ourselves alone. And it is the duty of everyone to inculcate a sense of nothingness, an ache of being empty of substance and value, in those who are not emulations of them.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South Bronx, which is not really in their best interests.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.

no creo que podamos vivir sin imitar a otros, sin querer ser otros.

It was not Orhan and ?evket locked in deadly combat but my own favorite hero or soccer player versus my brother's.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

When you see a person of worth, concentrate upon becoming their equal.

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

Philippians 2:5: "Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." The words call us up short as to what we are actually supposed to be doing on this path: not just admiring Jesus, but acquiring his consciousness.

Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.

If theres something you want to see in others, make sure they can see it in you first

He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and passions and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.