(148 quotes found)
“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
Mae West
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
William Arthur Ward
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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 most bitter.”
Confucius
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
Seneca
“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
Yogi Berra
“Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
Aristotle
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