Imitating Quotes

• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

  Frank Stella

  Imitating Others, Painting, Imitation

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• Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Character, Men, Sensitive Man

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Humor, Admission

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• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Imitation, Counterfeit

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• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

  Theodor Adorno

  Empathy, Imitating Others, Imitation

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Literature, Imitating Others

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitation Of Life

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Fun, Kindness

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Track, Imitating Others

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol Dingle, p. 144, July 26, 2000.

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Real, Essence, Form

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• Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Creative, Bird

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Believe, Compassion

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

  Jimmy Connors

  Wrestling, May, Persons

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• The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Energy, Wake Up

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• Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Kids, Use, Stage

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Temptation, World

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• Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

  Mark Bernstein

  Goal, Paper, Internet

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• Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Irritating, Advertisement Negative

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

  Akio Morita

  Children, Growing Up, Learning

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 161), 1986.

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• Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

  Minor White

  Portraits, Photographer, Brooms

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