Quotes About Imitation

She watched the woman around her. Most of them undulated like strippers or ground their arses into the men dancing behind them. She copied a few of the less X-rated moves and hoped she didn't look like she needed seizure medication.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

If you are being discipled by a rabbi, you certainly want to know what the rabbi knows. But the actual goal of being a disciple is to become who the rabbi is. Not just to know what he knows, but to become like him.

Obviously, apprenticeship is happening here. You want to learn to be a plumber? Find a Master Plumber and do what he does. You want to learn to be a disciple? Find someone with the life that resembles the life of Jesus and do what he does. This is what the disciples were doing.

As Jesus's disciples we are to follow him—doing the things he did.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.

expected Noa to do the same thing as Mozasu.

Unfortunately, I can't be Tina, because it's very difficult to lure her into a Freaky Friday – type situation where we could switch bodies, even though in the movies they make it look so easy. Believe me, I've tried.

we loved reenacting what we saw. The Church Lady's catchphrases were our catchphrases, and we repeated them until my mother said, exasperated: "Please stop saying 'Isn't that special?' in that strange voice. It is annoying to me and to others." At

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Not speaks one who spoke, There speaks one who wilt speak, May another find what he will speak! Not a teller of tales after they happen. This has been done before ; Nor a teller of what might be said, This is vain endeavor, it is lies. And none will recall his name to others. I say this in accord with what I have seen: From the first generation to those who come after, They imitate that which is past.

Bien qu'ils possèdent des moyens variés, moi je ne veux prendre des Européens que des mises en garde. Ô toi qui es prisonnier de leur imitation, libère-toi! Prends refuge dans le Qoran, et libère-toi!

The devil himself is not inspired. He's the master of imitation, I don't think he can succeed in inspiring anyone too.

The devil lacks inspiration that's why he has to imitate everything. Cultivate your thoughts!

The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.

The only way to get closer to God is to imitate Him and not associate Him in any way.

you become like what you worship;

The beauty of creation, to which art responds and which it tries to express, imitate, and highlight, is not simply the beauty it possesses in itself but the beauty it possesses in view of what is promised to

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

A spider web is a natural structure that works by ultimate tension, and an eggshell is a structure that works by ultimate compression. Both use the minimum and the appropriate material with maximum efficiency. Just as we learn to build suspension bridges with ropes and cables in imitation of spider webs, we can learn to build domes in imitation of eggshells, building in maximum tension or compression.

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents—and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did.

Outer reforms are useless if the inner state is not changed. Success is gained not by imitating the outer actions of the successful but by right inner actions and inner talking.