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Mimicry Quotes

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Norman MacCaig
Literature, Mimicry, Invention

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

Janine Benyus
Biomimicry, Conditions
"Episode 26: Biomimicry: Janine Benyus is Honored by TIME". "Living Green" with Meredith Medland, podcasts.personallifemedia.com.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Daniel Day-Lewis
Historical, Audio, Mimicry

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Pat Conroy
Athlete, Mimicry, Theft
Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Franz Grillparzer
Character, Crowds, Mimicry

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Immanuel Kant
Song, Men, Mimicry

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

Vladimir Nabokov
Anxiety, Way, Mimicry
Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.103, Hamilton Books

Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

Erving Polster
Gimmicks, Mimicry, Use
Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

Al Pacino
Real, Doe, Mimicry

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