Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone's paper has different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope 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 real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.” — Goitsemang Mvula Copy Share Image
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I tell stories about people I dislike, I give them ridiculous voices. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically… — William James Copy Share Image
