Quotes About Imitation

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Kendimi gittikçe kendimin berbat bir taklidi haline geliyormuÅŸum gibi hissediyorum

No se nos podía ocurrir nada que no estuviera haciendo ya un millon de personas.

They looked, to all intents and purposes, like living men and women. But then wasn't that the trick of their craft? To imitate life so well the illusion was indistinguishable from the real thing?

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the recalled gestures and mannerisms of the women they've been trained to become and hope for the best.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.

non di rado la vita imita i romanzieri francesi.

Every blue ocean will eventually be imitated and turn red

adopting a blue ocean creator's business model is easier to imagine than to do. Because blue ocean creators immediately attract customers in large volumes, they are able to generate scale economies very rapidly, putting would-be imitators at an immediate and continuing cost disadvantage.

Once a company creates a blue ocean and its powerful performance consequences are known, sooner or later imitators appear on the horizon.

Attempts to imitate a blue ocean creator conflict with the imitator's existing brand image.

When exceptional utility is combined with strategic pricing, imitation is discouraged.

Writing voice isn't as much a function of thinking as it is something that eludes definition and therefore assimilation.  The more artful flavors of prose are more often a function of intuition and imitation fused with heart and wit and delivered with a strong does of lyric sensibility. It

We could call the second problem with the current Sabbath vogue the fallacy of the direct object. Whom is the contemporary Sabbath designed to honor? Whom does it benefit? In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

It is important to note that the imitation of Yaldabaoth's Earth is a thought in his mind. Yaldabaoth's Earth is not real. The point for the reader to remember is that when a person feels an thinks that the world, in which he or she is living, is a horrible and loveless place, he or she has entered Yaldabaoth's mind.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Every age has its peculiar folly—some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.

Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights?

They liked fine gentlemen; they pretended that they did not, but they did. They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples. There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.