If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express… — Horace Copy Share Image
“They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery... but I say that it is the WORST form of creativity.” — Antwian Marcel Crawford Copy Share Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery. It's also standing in a world of shadows. Be unique, be creative, you were… — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
