Imitation Quotes - Page 19

• What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Being Yourself, Makeup, Important

  9 Copy quote

• Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

  Alan Bennett

  Art, Voice, Sound

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.10, Faber & Faber

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Envy, Pieces

  11 Copy quote

• I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

  Simon de Pury

  Thinking, Flattery, Form

  Interview with Bevy Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Unique, Want, Originals

  Source: collider.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

  John Climacus

  Running, Ease, Want

  7 Copy quote

• When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Hurt, Race

  4 Copy quote

• I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

  John Lloyd Young

  Watches, Evoke, Strict

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

  Mark Strong

  Character, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

  Hermann Broch

  Crazy, Quality, Technique

  Hermann Broch (2002). “Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch”, Counterpoint LLC

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

  L. M. Boyd

  Latin, Catholic, Church

  5 Copy quote

• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  William James

  Race, Two, Legs

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.39, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

  5 Copy quote

• Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reality, Views, Drawing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.140

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

  Aristotle

  Men, Animal, Way

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

  Pauline Kael

  Addiction, Directors, Noir

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Fiction, Definitions

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.210, Shambhala Publications

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Doors, Fiction

  4 Copy quote

• The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

  Matt Ridley

  Memes, Term, Units

  Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, Two, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Strong, Prayer

  20 Copy quote

• The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don't think about it.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, Law, Criticism

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Competition, Strive

  7 Copy quote

• A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Archer

  42 Copy quote

• There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.

  Jonathan Hoefler

  Differences, Selling

  10 Copy quote