Quotes About Imitation

And He is love, which means He overflows in sacrificial ways. But His sacrifices are not throwaways, but always come back to Him thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. Love is fruitful, and in imitation of Him we begin to learn that the more we give, the more we have.

Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God.

in order to teach a robot to imitate even a limited range of human behavior, you would have to, in a sense, teach it everything about the world.

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

Faults are soon copied.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

Now life is imitating art.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.

we are called to be disciples of a Rabbi who is always on the move, one who wants us to go with him, making disciples to the ends of the earth. We need to learn how to recognize his voice, to go where he wants us to go, and to serve and imitate him so that we can share his good news with the world.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.

It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure, and presently Rosemary would try to imitate it.

Dios me creó para que yo lo imitara de noche. Él es el Sol, yo soy la Luna. Mi luz flota sobre todo lo que es fútil o ha terminado, fuego fatuo, márgenes de río, pantanos y sombras.