Imitation Quotes
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“Originality”
“Imitation is suicide.”
“All imitation is exaggeration.”
“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.”
“Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.”
“C'est un bétail servile et sot à mon avis
Que les imitateurs.”
“Wikipedia: Imitation”
“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
“imitation fa:تقلید”
“We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.”
“Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.”
“Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschöpf.
Und wer der Vorderste ist, führt die Heerde.”
“A world where the thought of each man will not be his own, but an attempt to guess the thought of his neighbor.”
“L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; come per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.”
“Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari,
Iule ceratis ope Dædalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.”
“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties.”
“They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They’re concerned only with people. They don’t ask: “Is this true?” They ask: “Is this what others think is true?” Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show.”
“... they copycat. That's a great danger in any business. If anybody comes to me and says we want to do this because the other guy is doing it then I say go back to square one and come up with a better reason. Human nature is such that you do want to do what others are doing.”
“Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.”