Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

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
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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
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
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation. — Niccolo Machiavelli
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation. — Elbert Hubbard
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation… — George Bernard Shaw
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or… — George Henry Lewes
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to… — Brooks Atkinson
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare
...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small... — Muhammad Asad
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art… — Alexander Pope
BiomimicryÂ is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution… — Janine Benyus
Iâ€™ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. Itâ€™s the silence that scares me. Itâ€™s the blank page on which I can write my… — Mark Lawrence
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women — Naomi Wolf
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you… — James Gunn

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