Quotes About Mimicry

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?

Emphasizing that "people make decisions for emotional reasons not rational ones," the GCHQ contends that online behavior is driven by "mirroring" ("people copy each other while in social interaction with them"), "accommodation," and "mimicry" ("adoption of specific social traits by the communicator from the other participant"). The document then lays out what it calls the "Disruption Operational Playbook.

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

non di rado la vita imita i romanzieri francesi.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

The primary way children learn is by copying the behavior of their parents. If you are angry, you are modeling anger for your children. So it should come as no surprise that your son or daughter displays anger the same way you do.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.

I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

It messed with my head a little bit when people started to imitate what I was doing.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.