Top 100 Quotes About Imitate
#1. Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.
Pierre Boulez
#2. There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original,
Paris Hilton
#3. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#5. The problem is, you can't fake dead hands. That invisible something that fills dead or sleeping hands, making them appear strange and inanimate, is impossible to imitate.
Ainslie Hogarth
#6. The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.
John Cage
#7. I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.
Pina Bausch
#9. We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Pericles
#10. 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
#11. 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 ...
#12. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.
David Jeremiah
#13. At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#15. The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon
#16. Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn
#18. Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
Edward Hirsch
#19. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
William Carlos Williams
#20. He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
Shane West
#21. Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular.
Jonah Berger
#22. I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
David Mitchell
#23. If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They
can only imitate but never create.
Ravindra Shukla
#24. A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#25. 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
#26. I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
#27. But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.
Michael Ondaatje
#28. And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.
Aristotle.
#29. Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'
Gilbert Gottfried
#30. True hope is not fully realized when we keep it for ourselves, but only when we imitate Jesus Christ and give it away. That's when hope becomes mature.
Kim Meeder
#31. I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
#32. You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
Rumi
#33. When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
Dick Van Dyke
#34. The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler
#35. When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.
David Jeremiah
#37. Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.
Deepak Chopra
#38. 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
#39. When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
Publilius Syrus
#40. You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.
Emo Philips
#41. Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
#42. Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.
Dale Carnegie
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet ... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens
#47. Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato The Elder
#48. 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
#49. Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
Alexander Alekhine
#50. 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
#51. The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
Daniel Boulud
#52. Most people don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.
Derek Sivers
#53. 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
#54. To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment - and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight.
Mark J.P. Wolf
#55. Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
E. O. Wilson
#56. We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
Colin Powell
#57. Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.
Robert Dallek
#58. It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.
Aesop
#59. I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier
#60. Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. God forgets the past ... Imitate Him..
Max Lucado
#62. I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...
Anne Morice
#63. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
#64. Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.
Mark Millar
#65. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.
T. S. Eliot
#66. The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things.
Eileen Goudge
#67. Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate,
Louisa May Alcott
#68. Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard from a distance with a mixture of revulsion, pity, and reverence.
Susan Sontag
#69. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
#70. The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#71. I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Pedro Almodovar
#72. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
#73. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.
Rene Girard
#74. It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
J.K. Rowling
#75. Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
Marsha Blackburn
#76. Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
S. E. Entsua-Mensah
#77. To imitate a lunkhead without malice or derision is quite a feat - and Red Skelton brings it off everytime. - Humorist Leo Rosten
Douglas Wissing
#78. Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
Robert Rodriguez
#79. I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Horace
#80. Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.
Jeff Garlin
#81. The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.
Emma Goldman
#82. No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.
Prince
#84. Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
Allan Sherman
#85. Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco
#87. I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.
Christopher Isherwood
#89. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy
#90. Let us remain with Christ - abiding in Christ - and let us always try to be one with him. Let us follow him; let us imitate him in his movement of love, in his going forth to meet humanity. Let us go forth and open doors. Let us have the audacity to mark out new paths for proclaiming the Gospel.
Pope Francis
#91. To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Roland Barthes
#92. I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#93. We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
Raymond Radiguet
#94. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
Dan Fogelberg
#96. In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.
Billy Graham
#99. The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
Denis Diderot
#100. I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
Clifton Collins Jr.
