Quotes About Imitation

We must look for God in Christ not only by reading about Christ, but by endeavoring to be like him. It is only by participation in his life that we can come to an acquaintance with him.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

Jack had not only heard Billy Crystal's joke; he was genuinely impressed by Billy's imitation of Jack-as-Melody. "Christ," he said.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

It's like, you know, it doesn't matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it'll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Yes, money cannot buy happiness. But it can pay for a very good imitation of it. And most people would not know the difference.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis.

To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Car l'instinct d'imitation et l'absence de courage gouvernent les sociétés comme les foules.

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

Some men speak much of the imitation of Christ, and following of his example; and it were well if we could see more of it really in effect. But no man shall ever become "like unto him" by bare imitation of his actions, without that view or intuition of his glory which alone is accompanied with a transforming power to change them into the same image.

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Only through imitation do we develop toward originality.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation