Quotes About Emulation

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

You are a leader if your vision, mission, and actions inspire others to emulate you or follow your path.

Emulate greatness to be great.

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

Aspire to be who you most admire

You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.

You know you're on the right path when you look around and see people you want to be like!

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

There is a transcendent power in example.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead—without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.