Quotes About Imitation

Nothing is so infectious as example.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Of course there is no such thing as true love, but there is an imitation that is very pleasant.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

There's someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn't say anything damaging, I don't care. Let him get on with it.

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.

through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

I used to walk around trying to do the Britney Spears growl: 'Oh, baby, baby.'

I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.