Quotes About Imitation

Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The

till she found herself saying the words and singing the responses like a parrot.

You were always his inspiration. He imitated you.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

I think you're wonderful too, Hal!" Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder. Lydia snorted through her nose.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.

He's not Richard Feynman-just an artificial persona, a program meant to mimic the original.

I ragazzi apprendono come comportarsi dalle persone con cui vivono. [...]

For every quality in life—goodness, justice, courage, beauty, loyalty—there has to exist a single standard, a model of perfection of which, Socrates says, "all equal objects of sense Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are only imperfect copies.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. And after a time, set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples, of those that have carried themselves ill, in the same place; not to set off thyself, by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself, what to avoid.

Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type—a persistent character—is formed.

As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.