“ That's his style of hitting. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
- 406
“ Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 170
“ Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
- 390
“ We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. ”
- Ben Elton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ”
- Malcolm Cowley- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
- 497
“ It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. ”
- Kenneth Williams- Copy
- 790
“ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 333
“ An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ”
- Chateaubriand- Copy
- 1.9K
“ One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. ”
- Francesco Guicciardini- Copy
- 2.1K
“ However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 1.8K
“ When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 274
“ It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful. ”
- Phaedrus- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 915
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