Quotes About Mimicry

Los niños no hacen lo que les dices que hagan. Hacen lo que ven. Tu forma de vivir la vida les sirve a ellos de ejemplo.»

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivaled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.

Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too. We

Belonging cues are behaviors that create safe connection in groups. They include, among others, proximity, eye contact, energy, mimicry, turn taking, attention, body language, vocal pitch, consistency of emphasis, and whether everyone talks to everyone else in the group.

Reason is man's imitation of divinity.

The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.

Behavior is contagious.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

I'd turned myself into a hawk – taken all the traits of goshawks in the books and made them my own.

Obviously, everything that has been built in Silicon Valley is something that a lot of places are trying to mimic, and rightfully so. There's been a lot of amazing companies that have come out of there.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.