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Imitate, assimilate & innovate. -- Clark Terry
Imitate nothing except principle. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Imitate, assimilate, and innovate. -- Clark Terry
God forgets the past... Imitate Him.. -- Max Lucado
Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine. -- Ben Lee
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. -- Joseph Joubert
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness. -- Mark Victor Hansen
I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me." -- Rob Lowe
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze. -- D. H. Lawrence
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. -- William Butler Yeats
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Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. -- May Sarton
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T. S. Eliot
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. -- Albert Schweitzer
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. -- Woody Allen
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We do not imitate, but are a model to others. -- Pericles
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. -- George Meredith
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -- Charles II
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. -- William Morris Hunt
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. -- William Penn
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. -- Jean-Claude Killy
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James A. Baldwin
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. -- Russell Banks
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. -- Athanasius
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
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. -- Eric Hoffer
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. -- Pedro Almodovar
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. -- Marquis de Sade
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. -- Thomas Jefferson
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. -- Cat Stevens
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -- Confucius
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that. -- Anurag Kashyap
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. -- Aristotle
Observe, don't imitate. -- John M. Ford
I imitate everyone except myself. -- Pablo Picasso
Insist on yourself. Never imitate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. -- Honore de Balzac
Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials. -- Akiane Kramarik
Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
In literature imitations do not imitate. -- Mark Twain
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. -- Benjamin Franklin
First you imitate, then you innovate. -- Miles Davis
Art does not imitate, but interpret. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. -- T. S. Eliot
People imitate their leader. Lead by example. -- Barbara Corcoran
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. -- Amit Kalantri
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. -- Ken Yeang
Whoever tries to imitate me is lost, -- Sergei Parajanov
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life doesn't imitate art...it is art! -- John Lennon
A woman's beauty should not imitate art. -- Lionel Suggs
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. -- J. K. Rowling
Set a great example. Someone may imitate it. -- Albert Schweitzer
Life should imitate romance literature far more often. -- Charlaine Harris
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. -- Yogi Berra
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal, -- Banksy
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. -- Igor Stravinsky
Do something good and someone might imitate it. -- Albert Schweitzer
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. -- Juvenal
I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to. -- Nicole Ari Parker
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. -- Ani DiFranco
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV? -- Woody Allen
We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him. -- Charles Sheldon
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. -- Chuck Jones
One must not imitate what one wants to create. -- Georges Braque
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire. -- Frederick the Great
Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ. -- R. C. Sproul
Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves. -- Dale Carnegie
One of the first comic things you do is imitate. -- Robert Mankoff
When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor. -- Marcus Aurelius
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate. -- John Climacus
I try to follow his example, not to imitate him. -- George Bernard Shaw
You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls. -- Emo Philips
Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon. -- Matsuo Basho
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. -- Jonathan Swift
It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others. -- Aesop
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -- Charles II
When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults. -- Jacinto Benavente
Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. -- Charles Spurgeon
No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere. -- Prince
Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo. -- Malick Sidibe
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. -- Leon Krier
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. -- Bruce Lee
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. -- Stendhal
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. -- Eric Hoffer
Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal. -- Roman Coppola
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. -- Ernst Fischer
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun. -- Raoul Dufy
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. -- Napoleon Hill
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create -- Bruce Lee
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons. -- Voltaire
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. -- Edmund Spenser
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. -- Honore de Balzac
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side. -- Taufik Hidayat
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. -- Cecil Taylor
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended. -- Publilius Syrus
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -- William Shakespeare
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes. -- Cecil Taylor
I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use. -- Pina Bausch
I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. -- Tyler Hoechlin
Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it. -- Mason Cooley
Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else. -- Ornette Coleman

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