Quotes About Mimicry

All art is but imitation of nature.

oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

Self-confidence seemed to me more mimicry than anything else and I suggested visiting Clifton Zoo to watch the leaders in a group of baboons, and learn from them: make your gestures slow and deliberate; cultivate a deeper voice; appear casual at all times; eschew all rapid movements. That was all you had to do to look confident.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

When I was young, I always enjoyed watching skilful players and trying to emulate them the same as everyone else.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Pere?ii au culoarea cameleonului...

was she following her parents' examples?

He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Chartres Cathedral' after Corot, of the 'Fountains of Saint-Cloud' after Hubert Robert, and of 'Vesuvius' after Turner,

But the intensity of her mimicry could not fill the place of that light which is absent from our eyes so long as we do not understand what people are talking to us about.

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

I saw all the male guests take up the similar carnations that were lying by their plates and slip them into the buttonholes of their coats. I did as they had done, with the air of spontaneity that a free-thinker assumes in church, who is not familiar with the order of service but rises when everyone else rises and kneels a moment after everyone else is on his knees.

Are you crying? No, I'm impersonating a fountain.

Copying lies at the heart of creativity.

We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little as we know cats.