Quotes About Mimicry

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.

To beguile the time, look like the time.

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

She had once tried to copy Jojo's sexy wink – drink had been taken – but she had simply succeeded in dislodging her contact lens which had made her eyelid flutter like a trapped butterfly.

If you do what other successful people do, over and over again, nothing in the world can stop you from eventually getting the same results that they do

The objects the imitator represents are actions.

Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo.

The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.

There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

Now, although I'm a mimic and I've got a reasonable ear, being a character isn't about an ear. It's about the whole person.

I'm always freaking people out because I'll be out somewhere and I'll hear someone say something and then later on I'll say it again word for word. It's almost like recording it in your head.

I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I've taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he's the best at that.

Tú no te mueves. No te moverás. Otro, un socias, un doble fantasmagórico y meticuloso hace, quizás, en tu lugar uno a uno, los gestos que tú ya no haces.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

There were things I tried to emulate, like Diana's head tilt and her voice. She had a very unique way of speaking.

In anthropology terms, this superficial mimicry is called a cargo cult, a reference to the misguided worship of abandoned airplane landing strips among tribes hoping for the goods that airplanes had delivered to return.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.

La imitación es la forma más sincera de halago.

A veces los locos pueden imitar increíblemente bien la cordura.

Dite alla gente di vestirsi come i loro eroi.

Administrators often hide their mimicry under the rubric of adherence to "best practices." They can seldom offer any real evidence that the practice in question is even good, much less best.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.