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Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony. -- Debasish Mridha
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. -- Wayne Dyer
The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. -- Carl Van Vechten
I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes. -- Michael Hutchence
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. -- Maynard James Keenan
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector. -- Rush Limbaugh
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn. -- Janine Benyus
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. -- Alan Cohen
I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. -- Taylor Swift
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland. -- King Hussein I
No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things. -- Curtis Granderson
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity. -- Howard Schultz
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. -- Dave Grohl
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate. -- P. C. Cast
If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses. -- John C. Maxwell
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.' -- Alex Borstein
I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time. -- Dionne Warwick
Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests. -- Rush Limbaugh
Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate. -- Rita Rudner
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful. -- Taylor Swift
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket. -- Clayton M. Christensen
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry and as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Don't look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer. -- Steve Stoute
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat. -- Avril Lavigne
A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that. -- Ja Rule
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. -- David Packer
You must emulate the truth you exhort. -- Johnny Hunt
I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose -- Aceyalone
You see nature and then you try to emulate it. -- Alexander Calder
Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ. -- R. C. Sproul
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man. -- Natalia Kills
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you. -- Rick Nielsen
Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it. -- Tim Fargo
As we emulate His example, we will bless lives, including our own. -- Thomas S. Monson
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Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. -- Simon S. Tam
I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him. -- Andre Previn
I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person. -- Lazarus of Bethany
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. -- Winston Churchill
Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes. -- Peter Schmeichel
Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet. -- Rob Lowe
A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere. -- Debasish Mridha
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to. -- LeVar Burton
Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate. -- David B. Coe
When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself. -- Erin Wasson
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S. -- Jerry Brown
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. -- Andre Agassi
I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified. -- Michael Angarano
I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. -- Tyler Hoechlin
I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look. -- Jade Jagger
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models -- Epictetus
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress. -- Gianni Versace
Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him. -- Napoleon Hill
Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow. -- Debasish Mridha
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise. -- Yoshihiko Noda
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy." -- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. -- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. -- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. -- Kenneth Williams
Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison. -- Don Imus
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate. -- Eugene Odum
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions. -- Hugh Herr
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. -- Charlie Munger
Let us emulate nature, let us bloom like a flower to fill the world with kindness, tolerance, tranquility, beauty and love. -- Debasish Mridha
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up. -- CeeLo Green
There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses. -- Lynsey Dyer
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. -- Confucius
I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. -- Spencer Grammer
Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did. -- Brian Wilson
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. -- Confucius
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. -- Stephen Colbert
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. -- Bill Orcutt
Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. -- Ralph Bakshi
What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate. -- Justin Long
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate. -- Justin Long
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. -- David Byrne
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. -- John Mellencamp
It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent. -- Kato Kiyomasa
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. -- Rush Limbaugh
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. -- Brian Henson
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. -- Johnny Mathis
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. -- Arnold Palmer
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. -- Edward Snowden
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. -- Stuart Law
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. -- Alan Cohen
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 -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them. -- Muhtar Kent
Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future. -- Stephen Cambone
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. -- Derek Luke
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. -- John McCain
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him. -- Magnus Carlsen
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet -- Terence McKenna
I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'. -- Peter Senge
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do. -- Martin Henderson
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that. -- George Michael
My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little. -- Warren Moon
I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate. -- Lana Del Rey
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? -- Sandra Bernhard
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. -- Frank Gehry
I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them. -- Patrick Stump
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I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate. -- Philip Johnson
I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart. -- Robert Osborne
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. -- Eva Mendes
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. -- Elliott Yamin
Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. -- Jandy Nelson
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. -- Naomi Wolf
We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them. -- Alice Walker
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results. -- Poppy Z. Brite
I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally. -- Dave Grohl

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