Emulate Quotes

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.

As we emulate His example, we will bless lives, including our own.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done.

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself.

Never imitate, but never forget to emulate the best.

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

Isn't it sad that some people waste their lives emulating those who don't even know who they are or what they are here on earth to do?

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

Emulate greatness to be great.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire, But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.