Emulate Quotes

• I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

  Taylor Swift

  Funny, Hair, Facts

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• I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Unique, Trying

  "Unleashed: The Story of Tool". Book by Joel McIver, 2013.

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• Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

  Tom Shadyac

  Philosophy, Years, Groups

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

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• One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Roles

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• When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

  Confucius

  Self, Endeavor, Worthy

  As quoted in "Top 100 Power Verbs" by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, (p. 170), June 20, 2013.

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• 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

  Unique, People, Trying

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• I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Hero, Opportunity

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Agriculture

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.109, Princeton Architectural Press

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• My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.

  Michael K. Williams

  Running, Kings, Party

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

  Simon Tam

  Wells, Uniqueness

  "9 Business Lessons You Should Learn From Musicians" by Simon Tam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2015.

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• The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Hero, Greek

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• Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Analysis, Looks, Levels

  James Joseph Sylvester (2005). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.150, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• Johnny Bench
  befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

  Gary Carter

  Stars, Games, Wings

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• [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

  Sleep, Journey, Twists

  Source: collider.com

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• Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

  Brad Pitt

  Who I Am, Trying, Littles

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

  Warren Ellis

  Kings, Home, Mean

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• 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.

  Real, Self Esteem, Heart

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• You must emulate the truth you exhort.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives.

  Joseph Pearce

  Children, Self, Parent

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

  Erica Jong

  Holocaust, Weight, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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