A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him.
Niccolò MachiavelliTags: greatness learning imitation example
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
Pat ConroyTags: imitation plagiarism
Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....
Søren KierkegaardTags: life imitation christianity teaching christ follower adherent imitator
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
Frank Lloyd WrightTags: imitation
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
Christie WatsonTags: imitation following uprightness crooked
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: individuality imitation
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: individuality imitation invention
most expensive originals have cheap imitations.
Elfriede JelinekChristian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.
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