Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
I've been thinking. . . Maybe you're a mockingbird. . . Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds. . . No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.
Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese. . . When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers. " ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.