It's fun watching people get jealous over imitation bags thinking it's real. — Hong Jin-joo Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model… — Eric Hoffer 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
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson 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 three of you are enough to drive a mara mad. 'She can wear my shirt,’" she growled in imitation of Nash."No,… — Rachel Vincent 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
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Yes, money cannot buy happiness. But it can pay for a very good imitation of it. And most people would not know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
