Quotes About Emulation

El imitador es como un canal. Él mismo no bebe, pero puede llevar el agua hasta los sedientos.

Copiar una virtud de otro es más una copia que una virtud. Trata de aprender sobre qué se basa tal virtud.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

Take advice only from those you hope to be like.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In the presence of a bad man, turn your gaze within!

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

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Everyone's always on the hunt for a mirror. It's basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others.

It's funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don't feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who's doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it's more possible.

I watched a lot of Alessandro Nesta videos, as he had similar characteristics, studied carefully and applied myself.

I started watching videos of Shane Warne sir, and that's where I realized what leg-spin is. He was my idol, and I wanted to be like him, bowl like him.

Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be that same way.

I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

When we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them -- as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

To achieve your goal you have to get into the character of a winner. Confident people have a certain way of presenting themselves. Observe people who are confident and successful and try to emulate them in your life.

Look at the people you respect who seem confident dont copy them, but identify what do they do differently that conveys confidence and what you can learn from it.

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.

I have always tried to be all the tings my mother wanted me to be; ever the lady, always polite, never inconsiderate. I run my business the way my mother ran our house - everything just so. In some ways I am my mother - full of life when I'm happy, very cold when I'm angry. People say I look just like her. I'll tell you a secret: every time I pass a mirror, I gasp. I wonder if there's more here than meets the eye." - Karen, thirty-nine.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have found some heart-rending parallels. To think I am only a replica: how humiliating for a human being to find himself merely a duplicate of another.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.

But I've always believed," Kellhus continued, "that one must ride another man's horse for a day before criticizing." "To better understand him?" "No," the man replied with an eye-twinkling shrug. "Because then you're a day away and you have his horse . . ." Achamian