Top 34 Never Imitate Quotes
#3. Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
Charles Dickens
#4. Insist on yourself: never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.' ========== Rose in Bloom A Sequel to 'Eight Cousins' (Alcott, Louisa May)
Anonymous
#5. Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
Charles II
#10. If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They
can only imitate but never create.
Ravindra Shukla
#11. I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
Chris Lilley
#12. I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
Kevin Spacey
#13. I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.
Patti Davis
#14. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
#15. The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
David Salle
#16. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. We must make a study of our God: what he loves, what he hates, how he speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of him if we want to become like him. We must seek his face.
Jen Wilkin
#18. He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
Joshua Reynolds
#19. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.
Jewel
#20. We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
Brigham Young
#21. The greater part of our writers, ... have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
Isaac D'Israeli
#22. 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.
Bruce Mau
#23. Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#24. We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
Arkady Volozh
#25. When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#26. Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
Theodore Guerin
#27. We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
Colin Powell
#28. The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations.
Orson Scott Card
#29. English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith
#30. I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.
Joan Sutherland
#32. Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
William Zinsser
#33. I've been thinking ... Maybe you're a mockingbird ... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds ... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
Charles M. Schulz
#34. It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
Kurt Fuller
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