Quotes About Emulation

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Children become like the things they love.

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

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

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation

I tried my best, but she pulled ahead, and I was loath to shout after her. Instead, I practiced throwing rude and unflattering thoughts in her direction. Killy glanced over her shoulder at me, and her pace slowed to a very fast walk.

The idea of whole brain emulation - which was, in effect, the liberation from matter, from the physical world - seemed to me an extreme example of the way in which science, or the belief in scientific progress, was replacing religion as the vector of deep cultural desires and delusions.

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

We surround ourselves with people like ourselves. You become what you hang around.

And the way he follows you around all the time. It's like he's been taking pointers from your dog.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

To succeed in the business of the future we have to become the very people we are trying to reach

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.

Love is listening, sometimes overcoming obstacles, as well as being victorious when faced with emulation.

People cannot see anything that really is without becoming like it.

All those stories of Roman valour, heroism and self-sacrifice that he must have heard – told and retold around military campfires or at dinner tables – were not simply for amusement, he concluded. Their function was to encourage the young to imitate the gallant deeds of their ancestors; they were one aspect of the spirit of emulation, ambition and competition that he saw running right through Roman elite society.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

so many women having taken the hero's journey, only to find it personally empty and dangerous for humanity. Women emulated the male heroic journey because there were no other images to emulate;

Observamos aquí, una vez más, que todo el genio reside en la especie, la vida o la naturaleza; y que el individuo es más o menos estúpido. Sólo en el hombre hay emulación real entre las dos inteligencias, tendencia cada vez más precisa, cada vez más activa a una especie de equilibrio que es el gran secreto de nuestro porvenir.