Quotes About Imitation

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Blandt mennesker er der langt flere kopier end originaler.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Beyond Sicily came Greece. He definitely wanted to see Greece. He wanted to see Greece as Dickie Greenleaf with Dickie's money, Dickie's clothes, Dickie's way of behaving with strangers. But would it happen that he couldn't see Greece as Dickie Greenleaf? Would one thing after another come up to thwart him—murder, suspicion, people? He hadn't wanted to murder, it had been a necessity.

we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too. We

So the idea conveyed is an absolutely fatal one - that to follow him simply means to try to behave as he did when he was on the spot, under pressure or persecution or in the spotlight. There is no realization that what he did in such cases was, in large and essential measure, the natural outflow of the life he lived when not on the spot.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.

you know that just twelve years after our Revolutionary War, they had a revolution in France? So they were just a bunch of copycats. We also learned about some French guy named Napoleon who was always sticking his hand in his shirt. Nobody knew why. I guess he had a rash or something. That guy should get some ointment to put on his stomach.

Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

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.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

MAN is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation, and the compulsion of circumstance; he does not love society so much as he fears solitude.

Evolution in man during recorded time has been social rather than biological: it has proceeded not by heritable variations in the species, but mostly by economic, political, intellectual, and moral innovation transmitted to individuals and generations by imitation, custom, or education.

Reason is man's imitation of divinity.

Our children bring us up by showing us, through imitation, what we really are.

Perhaps Tarde and James are right, and all history is a succession of inventions made by genius and turned into conventions by the people, a series of initiatives taken by adventurous leaders and spread among the masses of mankind by the waves of imitation.

Dependence leads to fear; fear leads to comparisons; comparisons lead to competition, and competition eventually destroys us by degrading us to imitation, conformity, infantilism or mediocrity.

The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.

Imitation is criticism.

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.

It is an imitation more real somehow than that which it emulates.

Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.