Best Imitation Words
411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up…
— M. John Harrison
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
— Margaret Fuller
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So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is…
— Philip Sidney
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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
— Maria Montessori
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In ‘Imitation of Life’, I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt,
— Fredi Washington
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
— Oliver Lodge
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
— Ahmet Ertegun
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Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that…
— Hollis Frampton
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Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the…
— Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
— George Polya
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Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT;…
— Josef Albers
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We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must…
— Newton N. Minow
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"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.…
— Clive James
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Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat…
— Paul Starr
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure…
— Hans Hofmann
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I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
— Gene Ween
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It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our…
— Jean-Pierre Serre
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave…
— Walter Lippmann
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Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
— Oswald Mosley
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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…
— Eric Hoffer
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion…
— Gary Gygax
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