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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. -- Frank Stella
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. -- Theodor Adorno
We do not imitate, but are a model to others. -- Pericles
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. -- Evan Parker
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves. -- LZ Granderson
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. -- Aida Overton Walker
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. -- Berenice Abbott
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead. -- Robert Rodriguez
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products. -- Arkady Volozh
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
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. -- Justin Timberlake
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. -- Shirin Ebadi
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others. -- Andrea Bocelli
So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done. -- Chuck Zito
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. -- John Ruskin
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically. -- Viggo Mortensen
Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.' -- Gilbert Gottfried
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality. -- Tina Modotti
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
I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men. -- Jan Hus
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
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking. -- Christopher Lloyd
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting. -- Frank Stella
We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us. -- Benjamin Hoff
An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.' -- Theodore Bikel
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others -- G-Dragon
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself. -- Brad Warner

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