Imitation Quotes

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temptation, Creatures, Hard

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.325, Penguin

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

  Polly Bergen

  Insecurity, Form

  Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Flattery, Insult

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Counterfeit, Imitating

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• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Parenting, Causes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

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• Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

  Peyton Manning

  Flattery, Form

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• When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Inspiration, Thrive, Dies

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• Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn’t as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high.

  Simone Elkeles

  Brother, Animal, Juniors

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• Through others we become ourselves.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Psychology, Identity

  "The history of the development of higher mental functions (Vol. 4, pp. 97-120)". Book by R. Reiber, 1997.

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• Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Flattery, Form

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• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Innovation, Ends

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• Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Flattery

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, Rajpal & Sons

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• Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

  Mike Watt

  Mean, Expression, Mold

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• I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Identity, Different, Flattery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Needs, Loud

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• We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

  Denis Waitley

  Repetition, Observation

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

  John Berger

  Photography, Drawing, Doe

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

  Florence Nightingale

  Jesus, Prayer, Real

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.114, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Guarantees, Want

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Feelings, Quality

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• People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying... and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non-mechanical, keeps you alive.

  Rajneesh

  Light, People, Joy

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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