Quotes About Imitation

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Individuals who wear fake (counterfeit) branded sunglasses cheat more often across a number of different tasks.

What kind of intelligence allows a bird to anticipate the arrival of a distant storm? Or find its way to a place it has never been before, though it may be thousands of miles away? Or precisely imitate the complex songs of hundreds of other species? Or hide tens of thousands of seeds over hundreds of square miles and remember where it put them six months later? (I would flunk these sorts of intelligence tests as readily as birds might fail mine.)

It makes me wonder just how many supposedly brave people in the world are just men and women trying to imitate someone more courageous than themselves.

Candide was an optimist, but you're a pessoptimist. That fact, I repsonded, Is a virtue that, above all others, distinguishes my people. But you, he criticized again, seem to be imitating Candide. Don't blame me for that. Blame our way of life that hasn't changed since Voltaire's day, except that El Dorado has now come to exist on this planet.

But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

jedan je zlato uporabljen kao kamen za plo?nike, a drugi je kositar, ulašten da bi oponašao srebrno posu?e.

Hay algo que me gusta en la agonía, y es que sé que es verdad; los hombres no simulan convulsiones, no imitan el dolor. Unos ojos se vidrian, y es la muerte. Imposible de fingir las gotas de sudor sobre la frente que la inhábil angustia va ensartando.

Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.