Imitation Quotes - Page 7

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

The only limitations we face are the ones we place upon ourselves

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.