Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

Imitation can be commercial suicide. — William Bernbach
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing… — Aristotle
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to… — John McCain
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that… — Isaac Newton
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated… — Curtis Sittenfeld
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation. — Henry Ford
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.Â Sanctity is intimacy with God;… — Pope John Paul II
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have… — Unknown Author
The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic… — Max Weber
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion… — Judith Butler
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor… — David Livingstone
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.… — John Berger
I have come from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negros should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling and if we… — Unknown Author
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. — Tad Williams
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather,… — Hermann Broch
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. — Denis Waitley
If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation. — Denis Waitley

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