Imitation Quotes
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 its recompense.
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.
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.
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief
Everyone has limitations. Know that when you always say “I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.
Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.
Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.
Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
An original is worth more than a copy.
Originals cost more than imitations.