Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

— Clark Terry

First you imitate, then you innovate.

— Miles Davis

“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up…

— Amit Ray

Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely, but they've…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

If you continue to assimilate the values of others: Then you can not for the ever-inspiring

— Mak_786

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don't think…

— Angie Thomas

I tried to assimilate and mix myself in with everybody, but I still stood out because of my mannerisms, the way I spoke, my…

— Brad Goreski

Assimilate this! -Worf

— Star Trek

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

— John French Sloan

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.”

— Angela Y. Davis

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to…

— Don Ameche

“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things…

— Vera Nazarian

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the…

— Edmund White