Top 33 Quotes About Imitator
#1. An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard
#2. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#4. Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
Loudon Wainwright III
#5. Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.
Lewis Schiff
#6. You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God.
Thomas Brooks
#7. You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?
Stewart Stafford
#8. In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
George Cowan
#9. Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. I can learn from the preachers of the past, and should; but I must not be a slavish imitator of them.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#11. This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors.
Saint John Chrysostom
#12. What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.
F. Huegel
#13. I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
Hank Williams
#14. How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?
Max Lucado
#15. Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.
Marcel Marceau
#16. 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
#17. I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#19. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. I believe that love
not imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#21. When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.
Samuel Johnson
#22. The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
Paul Cezanne
#25. The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#26. Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.
Rajneesh
#28. I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.
Michael Buble
#29. A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature ... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.
Joshua Reynolds
#30. 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
#31. Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
Ann Landers
#32. I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
Harrison Ford
