Quotes About Imitation

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

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

A veces los locos pueden imitar increíblemente bien la cordura.

Vision defect leads to Copycat

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I was doing this thing I sometimes do of pretending I'm Treena. She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her. I sounded, to my own ears, professional and upbeat.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

One forgets that though a clown never imitates a wise man, the wise man can imitate the clown.

Playing jazz is an art that is absorbed through intense listening, focused imitation, and fearless experimentation. The jazz masters learned on the bandstand. Literally.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The Evasive Cartwheel â"¢ © etc., Bartimaeus of Uruk, circa. 2800 B.C.E. Often imitated, never surpassed. As famously memorialized in the New Kingdom tomb paintings of Ramses III— you can just see me in the background of The Dedication of the Royal Family before Ra, wheeling out of sight behind the pharaoh.

We become like the God/god we behold. We appear like the God/god we admire. We duplicate the God/god we deify. We favor the God/god we follow. We match the God/god we magnify.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

In this subsection I offer an explanation for the puzzle by pointing out that free revealing is often the best practical option available to user innovators. Harhoff, Henkel, and von Hippel (2003) found that it is in practice very difficult for most innovators to protect their innovations from direct or approximate imitation. This means that the practical choice is typically not the one posited by the private investment model: should innovators voluntarily freely reveal

It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea.

You see kids, little boys, practicing the jeers of their television heroes--they shape themselves on such models. It's a strange conformity to what's thrust at them; they adopt it and adapt it and play with it.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.

Klaus's charm, at least for me, was that his voice already sounded like an imitation of itself; Klaus was an actor bemused to be playing Klaus. And yet the effect of this doubling was generous, self-deprecating;

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.