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Imitate Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then…
- The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in…
- However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the…
More Imitate Quotes
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen
- I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you… — Pedro Almodovar
- We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to… — Unknown Author
- Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some… — Jacques Loeb