Imitation Quotes - Page 17

• The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Perfection, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

  Tracy Kidder

  Goal, Emphasis, Lives Of Others

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House

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• Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Reflection, Perfect, Soul

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Acquiring Knowledge, Form

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• I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business

  Jeaniene Frost

  Bird, Thee, Finished

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited.

  Kevin Hearne

  Dog, Eric, Sometimes

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.246, Del Rey

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• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hate, Lying, Opposites

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• Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

  Patrick O'Brian

  May, Wealth

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.

  T.C. Boyle

  Heart, Hands, Wicked

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Competition, Film

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• For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.

  B. J. Porter

  Dream, Ideas, Office

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.

  William Monahan

  Boston, Hands, Insecurity

  Source: collider.com

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• Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Numbers

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Art is but imitation of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Art Is

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• I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.

  Ray Milland

  Hate, Dark, Voice

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• When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

  Grace Paley

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

  Walter Gropius

  Fighting, Artistic, Inferiors

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• The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Keys, Ideas

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.

  Andre Breton

  Photography, Writing, Artist

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• Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

  Heinrich Heine

  Photography, Art, Opinion

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• We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Envy, Desire

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• And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

  Regina King

  Real, Looks, Film

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying to figure out if animals imitate or teach. Sometimes they find they do; sometimes they find they don't. And so that's kind of the level of controversy there. Biologists would include imitation and teaching and a range of other kinds of social learning. So we would call that culture, whereas the psychologist wouldn't.

  Hal Whitehead

  Teaching, Animal, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we have all the elements of a drama, both political and personal at the same time. The decors and the costumes are all based on real photos - I wanted to be as close to reality as possible. Nicola Piovani's theatrical music gives a distance that's almost Chaplinesque, there's something quite funny. There's no imitation, no caricature, no parodie - it's realism with a distance where the dialogues are often quite funny.

  Xavier Durringer

  Real, Distance, Drama

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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