The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.
The worst acting is about imitation.
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
. . . Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.