Quotes About Mimicry

As kids, we want to ape our parents.

Faults are soon copied.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.

El imitador es como un canal. Él mismo no bebe, pero puede llevar el agua hasta los sedientos.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

That was a coping mechanism that psychopaths often used. They didn't feel the way normal individuals did, so they just mimicked the behavior. They acted as if they got angry, as if they were hurt, as if they loved. But it was all just acting.

Even as a child I used to mimic veteran film actors of the time.

When I was younger, in my living room, I used to put 'Cats' the stage musical video on and I used to copy Victoria.

I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

When we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them -- as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

Comprehend and copy nature

Que sobre todo objeto hay tres artes distintas: la de utilizarlo, la de fabricarlo y la de imitarlo?

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous

I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon's... backside.

We're prewired to imitate," Anders Ericsson says. "When you put yourself in the same situation as an outstanding person and attack a task that they took on, it has a big effect on your skill.

If someone in a powerful position acts in a certain way or expresses a certain view, we implicitly assume that those actions and views are associated with power, and that emulating them may be to our advantage.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.