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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
— Stendhal
Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
— Dan Brown
Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
— Deborah Harkness
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
— Oswald Chambers
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
— Clement Greenberg
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
— John Milton
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
— Richard Aldington
Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
— Ornette Coleman
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.
— Christian Slater
What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which.
— Jamie McGuire
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
— William Arthur Ward
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
— David Mitchell
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
— Frederick The Great
Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.
— Brandon Sanderson
The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things.
— Eileen Goudge
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.
— Edward Hirsch
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
— Kurt Fuller
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.
— Edward Hirsch
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We must not imitate that which we seek to create.
— Georges Braque
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
— Dan Fogelberg
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
— Vladimir Nabokov
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
— Rumi
of all things the perfection is to imitate the face of mankind
— Nicholas Hilliard
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
— Russell Banks
To imitate a lunkhead without malice or derision is quite a feat - and Red Skelton brings it off everytime. - Humorist Leo Rosten
— Douglas Wissing
You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?
— Stewart Stafford
The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations.
— Orson Scott Card
The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
— Marcello Giordani
Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
— Henri Matisse
There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
— Maddie Ziegler
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.
— John O'Donohue
Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.
— Malick Sidibe
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
— Charles Kuralt
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
— Honore De Balzac
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.
— Charles Dickens
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
— Richard Bach
Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
— Francesca Marciano
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
— Leon Krier
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This
— Robert Blumenfeld
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
— Morgan Brittany
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
— New York Times
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
— Stanley Fish
Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular.
— Jonah Berger
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
— CeeLo Green
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
— Jean-Claude Killy
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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!
— Vincent De Paul
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
— Clifton Collins Jr.
Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll.
— Upasana Banerjee
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
— Pope Francis
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.
— Carrie Fisher
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place.
— Henry Fielding
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
— Quintilian
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
— Walter Lippmann
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
— Harrison Ford
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James Baldwin
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
— Salvador Dali
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
— Leigh Newman
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
— Carlo Grante
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
— John Vianney
Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers.
— Richard J. Mouw
