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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. -- Gertrude Stein
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity. -- Polly Bergen
No man was ever great by imitation. -- Samuel Johnson
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. -- Peyton Manning
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. -- Mae West
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. -- Voltaire
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. -- Brian Molko
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -- Confucius
Imitation is flattery -- Rick Riordan
Imitation is criticism. -- William Blake
Imitation is always insult--not flattery. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Imitation can be commercial suicide. -- William Bernbach
Imitation cannot go above its model. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art only begins where Imitation ends. -- Oscar Wilde
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is suicide, envy is ignorance. -- Ralph Ellison
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult. -- Elbert Hubbard
Imitation is a necessity of human nature. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the sincerest form of pain. -- Roy Horn
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business. -- Roseanne Barr
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness. -- Oscar Wilde
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. -- Maria Montessori
Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist]. -- Alexey Brodovitch
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism. -- Red Skelton
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. -- Michael Berryman
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. -- Oscar Wilde
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. -- Rajneesh
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. -- George Bernard Shaw
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. -- Alexandre Vinet
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. -- Marva Collins
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original. -- Carine Roitfeld
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. -- Mark Strong
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. -- John Dryden
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I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it. -- Graham Moore
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. -- James Fenton
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder
The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him. -- Graham Moore
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail. -- Harold Rosenberg
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle. -- Mike Watt
My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun. -- Sandra Dee
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive. -- Gertrude Kasebier
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence. -- Madame de Stael
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. -- Umberto Eco
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. -- James Boswell
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. -- Wendell Phillips
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't spring full-blown as Bach or Picasso; they needed models. This is especially true of writing. -- William Zinsser
Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told. -- J. C. Ryle
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. -- Friedrich Schiller
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. -- Honore de Balzac
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. -- Mason Cooley
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. -- Aesop
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -- Joyce Brothers
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. -- Erno Rubik
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. -- Wendell Phillips
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. -- AnnaLynne McCord
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. -- Bill Griffith
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. -- Theodor Adorno
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. -- Judith Butler
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. -- T. S. Eliot
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else. -- Lena Horne
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
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking. -- John Mayer
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. -- Hans Hofmann
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. -- Horace Walpole
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. -- Leslie Charteris
The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect. -- Elaine Stritch
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' -- Edgar Allan Poe
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation. -- Eric Hoffer
My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered. -- Lil Mama
I'm into emulation, not imitation. -- Chuck Inglish
Discipling involves instruction and imitation. -- Mark Dever
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Conformity is an imitation of grace. -- Simone Weil
Art is but imitation of nature. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The worst acting is about imitation. -- Paul Guilfoyle
In imitation is a bit suicide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is reverent imitation of God. -- Tryon Edwards
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
All art is an imitation of nature. -- Seneca the Elder
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. -- Sergei Prokofiev
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. -- Denis Waitley
No one ever became great by imitation. -- Samuel Johnson
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. -- Marcus Aurelius
A good imitation is the most perfect originality -- Voltaire
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. -- Sun Ra
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism -- Walter Gropius
The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation. -- Simone Weil
Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time. -- Mike Rowe
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation -- Thomas Gainsborough
I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation. -- Karen Marie Moning
A poor original is better than a good imitation. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There's a difference between making an imitation and selling it. -- Jonathan Hoefler
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. -- Alan Cohen
I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery. -- Simon de Pury
For the beauty that adorns the earth is not imitation -- Judy Azar LeBlanc
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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