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Imitation 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.
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
- Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
More Imitation Quotes
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to… — Suzanne Collins
- Imitation is the sincerest form of show business. — Roseanne Barr
- Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
- To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. — Wendell Phillips