Quotes About Imitation

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

Copiar una virtud de otro es más una copia que una virtud. Trata de aprender en qué se basa tal virtud.

El imitador es como un canal. Él mismo no bebe, pero puede llevar el agua hasta los sedientos.

El mismo Rumi dijo una vez que únicamente se puede encontrar oro falso porque existe una cosa que es el oro real para ser copiado.

La ciencia deteriorada es un culto, así como el Sufismo deteriorado o imitativo.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

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.

Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

Even as a child I used to mimic veteran film actors of the time.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.

It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

It's really cool to see how many people try to imitate me or wear my stuff. I get a lot of Instagram videos of people doing my entrance. I think that's so cool. To see the variety of people, little girls, guys, doing it. I never really thought that would happen. It's amazing.

You know how I learned to shoot? I watched white people. Just regular white people. They really put their elbow in and finish up top. You can find videos of them online.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.