Quotes About Imitation

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

Actually, the first songs I learned were imitations of Johnny Mathis.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

The fact is, Jesus was the greatest human being who ever lived, and if all we have to look forward to in life is the frustration of trying to be someone we are not, then we've got better ways of enjoying the interval between birth and death. But the "good news" is that Jesus /doesn't/ want us to be "like" Him. He wants to share His resurrection life with us. He doesn't want us to imitate Him; instead, Christ, the Unspeakable Gift, wants to live in and through us.

Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most

defined self-socialization: "The process whereby children influence the direction and outcomes of their development through selective attention, imitation, and participation in particular activities and modalities of interaction that function as key contexts of socialization.

Primates are in fact natural conformists. Not only do they imitate, they also like to be imitated.

In a similar study, human adolescents going out with a date were instructed to mimic their date's every move, such as picking up a glass, leaning an elbow on the table, or scratching their head. The date reported liking him or her much better than those whose date acted independently. They don't realize why they feel differently, but evidently on some level we regard imitation as a compliment. It

Neuroimaging studies indicate that imitating people of one's own gender activates reward centers in the brain, whereas imitating people of the opposite gender does not. This doesn't necessarily mean that the brain is in charge, because it too reacts to the environment. But it does suggest that evolution has equipped our young with a feel-good bias to conform to their gender.

Hush, little bright line, don't you cry You'll be a clich

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I sound. Like a demented rooster.

True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation.

Watch out for púcas as you travel, lad," Cody said, shaking my hand. "Could be imitating anything out there." "Once again," Tia said as she settled into the seat in front of me, "those are from Irish mythology, you nitwit.

Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you.

You are not a weak man, Dalinar,' Navani said. 'I am. But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian."[2]

Henri Nouwen said, "When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.