Quotes About Emulation

I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.

There are times when I watch Jurgen Klopp leaping around after Liverpool have scored and I think to myself: 'I wish that was me.'

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

Excellence and achievement have a structure that can be copied. By modeling successful people, we can learn from the experience of those who have already succeeded.

Somebody asked me once how I felt about all that," Bird said. "I told them, 'Hell, I'm jealous of them too. I'm jealous because I never got to play with a Larry Bird.

We must look for God in Christ not only by reading about Christ, but by endeavoring to be like him. It is only by participation in his life that we can come to an acquaintance with him.

Elizabeth and her younger sisters, Claude and Marguerite, followed their mother's example.

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

I think I'll spend the rest of the night being really jealous of other people who have skills I wish I had.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.

Our own statistics about violence, depression, drug abuse, divorce, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies. Why would we want others to emulate us?

It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to be when I grow up.

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. —Steinbeck Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

People seldom know the sacrifices you made to get where you are, yet they criticize you and envy you, instead of trying to emulate you.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.