Quotes About Imitation

Exemplarele "f?r? de pereche" ale omenirii, asemni lui Moise, Siddartha, Confucius, Socrate sau Isus, care f?cuser? din comandamentul "F? ca mine!" calea de urmat, erau, prin chiar natura lor excep?ional?, neimitabile. Toate preceptele lor au ridicat prea sus ?tacheta de om.

The senses and intuition, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, of which man posts, may be found in an incipient or even sometimes in a well developed condition, in the lower animals." -Darwin

You are imitating Jesus Christ and taking on the nature of a servant, which is your calling as a Christian.

would not consider any spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."3

Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

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 and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Ulica Krokodyli by?a koncesj? naszego miasta na rzecz nowoczesno?ci i zepsucia wielkomiejskiego. Widocznie nie sta? nas by?o na nic innego, jak na papierow? imitacj?, jak na fotomonta? z?o?ony z wycinków zle?a?ych, zesz?orocznych gazet.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Painting, when we have allowed for the pleasure of imitation, can only affect simply by the images it presents; and even in painting, a judicious obscurity in some things contributes to the effect of the picture.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, - it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. 'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time. Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one? He swallowed a ****ing dictionary, Corporal Nettle said proudly.

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

I adored my brother when I was younger, so I wanted to do everything he did.

When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.

I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others to me growing to sing in my own voice. The opera was difficult and it felt like a personal conquest.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.