Imitate Quotes

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

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.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

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.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.