Top 100 Quotes About Emulate
#1. Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate ...
He could start by spending 27 years in prison.
Don Imus
#2. Let us emulate nature, let us bloom like a flower to fill the world with kindness, tolerance, tranquility, beauty and love.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.
Muhtar Kent
#4. Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future.
Stephen Cambone
#6. Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my ... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
Jason Kidd
#7. In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.
Mike Bidlo
#8. I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified.
Michael Angarano
#9. The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.
Eva Mendes
#10. Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.
Alan Cohen
#11. I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
Andre Previn
#12. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
Howard Schultz
#13. I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.
Karan Johar
#14. One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.
John Fairclough
#15. Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.
Lauren Worsham
#16. If you emulate the behaviours of confident people, you will help yourself to become confident.
Sam Owen
#17. Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
Terence McKenna
#18. Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
Eugene Odum
#19. Since the security benefits of hegemony are enormous" in an anarchic system in which there is no world hegemon, "powerful states will invariably be tempted to emulate the United States and try to dominate their region of the world."15
Robert D. Kaplan
#20. It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
George Michael
#21. A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
Yoshihiko Noda
#22. There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
Rush Limbaugh
#23. These so-called entertainers get rich while the kids who emulate their lyrics and attitude destroy themselves.
Bill O'Reilly
#24. [Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I had to finish the script, and I thought if we can emulate this in the film, it's going to be a really good film.
Mark Strong
#25. Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
Derek Luke
#26. Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
Gianni Versace
#27. French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
Louis Leterrier
#28. I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks.
Anna Bondoc
#29. What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
Sathya Sai Baba
#30. Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.
Napoleon Hill
#31. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#32. The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
Walt Disney
#34. China has no choice but to emulate the power of America's founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.
Patrick Mendis
#35. I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.
Cal Thomas
#36. Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
David Packer
#37. I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.
Wayne Dyer
#38. When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.
Elliott Yamin
#39. I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
Patrick Stump
#40. I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.
Michael Hutchence
#41. In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgments based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance.
Joshua Greene
#42. Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.
Jon Foreman
#44. Expect writers to do more than sit and study the works of those they hope to emulate. Encourage them to cut mentor texts open - physically.
Angela Stockman
#45. Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing ... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
Alex Borstein
#46. It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.
Martin Henderson
#47. Out of all the things in the world to emulate an ostrich isn't one of them.
Guy S. Stanton III
#48. Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.
Chen Guangbiao
#49. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucius
#50. Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#51. I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
Anthony Jeselnik
#52. Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
Alan Cohen
#53. The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#54. My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
Charles Edison
#55. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
#56. What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Quentin L. Cook
#57. He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance
gallant, glorious, and quite mad.
Sharon Kay Penman
#58. My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
Sarah Pinborough
#59. As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
P.C. Cast
#60. I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Marguerite Young
#61. The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste ... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory
Sunita Narain
#62. The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.
Eva Mendes
#63. Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.
Barry Alvarez
#64. A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.
Debasish Mridha
#65. You cannot be who you are not.
Simply rest, sit still and unknot.
You may even try to emulate and inspire,
But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#66. What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
Magnus Carlsen
#67. The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Naomi Wolf
#68. Be an example to teach, be a role model to follow, and be a leader to emulate.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.
David B. Coe
#70. You are a leader if your vision, mission, and actions inspire others to emulate you or follow your path.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded.
Livy
#72. The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.
Stuart Law
#73. When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Are our students choosing not to allow us to teach them because they do not want to be just like us? You see, it is up to them whether they will consider us their teacher (allow us to teach them) and become just like us; therefore, it is up to us to be teachers that they desire to emulate.
Sandra C. Carranza
#75. I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
Lana Del Rey
#76. I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
Arnold Palmer
#77. Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.
Tony Evans
#78. No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things.
Curtis Granderson
#79. At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.
Sun Tzu
#81. It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
Jerry Brown
#82. What I don't understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
Damon Galgut
#83. We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.
Hugh Herr
#84. I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.
Robert Osborne
#85. Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
Ralph Bakshi
#86. Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.
Justin Long
#87. I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
CeeLo Green
#88. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most
Scott Farris
#89. It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Kenneth Williams
#90. Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.
Rush Limbaugh
#91. God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior's example and spend the days of their lives doing good.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#92. Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.
Steve Maraboli
#93. I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#94. I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
Ronnie Wood
#95. Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
Poppy Z. Brite
#96. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration, and his peculiar lack of need for inspiration.
Andre Agassi
#97. One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.
Viola Davis
#98. Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#99. Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.
Kelly Gallagher
#100. It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.
Maya Angelou
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