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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Ananya is a very happy soul, who won't get bogged down by insecurities. I have told her to not imitate anyone.
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.
Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.
Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.
We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.
I want to see good-quality comedy shows, not the slapstick ones or where people imitate others.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.
I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.
Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
