Quotes About Emulation

Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

Managers at lower levels lack the perspective and the confidence to maintain a strategy. There will be constant pressures to compromise, relax trade-offs, and emulate rivals. One of the leader's jobs is to teach others in the organization about strategy—and to say no. Strategy

the founding fathers wholeheartedly believed "life was a school for virtue, and one must find the proper teachers."366 As a teacher, someone of Cincinnatus's virtue was "emulated, and spread," as Hume said, by "contagion."367

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

My father was someone that I always looked to for guidance. I sought to emulate his beliefs and his actions. He was a former Jesuit Catholic priest turned professor and scientist. My father led by word and by deed. He taught me ethics and morality through the study of philosophy, especially that of Socrates.

If you are being discipled by a rabbi, you certainly want to know what the rabbi knows. But the actual goal of being a disciple is to become who the rabbi is. Not just to know what he knows, but to become like him.

Obviously, apprenticeship is happening here. You want to learn to be a plumber? Find a Master Plumber and do what he does. You want to learn to be a disciple? Find someone with the life that resembles the life of Jesus and do what he does. This is what the disciples were doing.

What You Are, You Reproduce

expected Noa to do the same thing as Mozasu.

La petulancia con la que exhibe la vastedad de su ignorancia es compensada por su simpatía y calor humano, y hacen fácil ignorar su intento poco exitoso de emular a Fidel Castro y Henry Kissinger»,

and as she watched the father smile, she caught another bewitching way in which the son might have come to resemble him.

This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.

Sometimes, when you fight a war, you become what you are fighting.

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents—and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

In this holy russia of ours everything is infected by a mania for imitation, and everyone apes his superior

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.