You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I… — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. — George Cowan Copy Share Image
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives,… — Kim Thayil Copy Share Image
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There… — Merrell Fankhauser Copy Share Image
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
