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The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words. — Amos Oz

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life. — Rajneesh

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original, — Paris Hilton

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

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves. — Deborah Harkness

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people. — Anne Sweeney

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

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. — Edmund Spenser

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie. — David Levithan

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

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. — Horace

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

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne

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

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. — Athanasius

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.] — Juvenal

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator? — Stewart Stafford

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian

I try to imitate the effortless grace that Day and Pascao have in this urban jungle. — Marie Lu

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk

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

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. — Horace

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. — Ben Shahn

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 didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use. — Pina Bausch

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

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. — Andrew Vachss

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

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. — Dave Ramsey

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made. — Irwin Winkler

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

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything. — Kimiko Glenn

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

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it. — Mason Cooley

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

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. — Meryl Streep

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer