Quotes About Emulation

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.

Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Steve Jobs in 1996. I like to think that we may begin with imitation, graduate to emulation, and then aspire to creation.

Machinery makes men like itself.

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

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. . . . We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. —CHARLES V. WILLIE3

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~ Ashanti Proverb

And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy.

Your child will learn to respect and value the needs and feelings of others by watching the choices you make.

Ahora que casi no recuerdo su rostro, ni cómo era su cama, estoy segura de que en realidad no lo quería a él, lo que yo quería era ser él

I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.

Find somebody who has been successful, and learn how to do it. Find somebody who has been unsuccessful, and learn how not to do it. The clues are there. Find 'em.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

I really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn, so hey - I tried to look like him.

I was a massive Rolling Stones fan, and I wanted to play music like... they do... were doing.

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don't like. Stressing to impress is fine, but do it for the right people - those you want to emulate.

La gran tentación de la gente es querer ser otra persona, quieren protagonizar la película de otro.

I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

I think every character rubs off on you a little bit.