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  • Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

    Faces   Plastic   Buried  
  • I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

  • No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

    Country   Race   Nations  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.164, Rajpal & Sons
  • Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  • We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

    Past   Self   Habit  
    William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press
  • Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

    Nature   Science   Men  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.40, Courier Corporation
  • If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

    Pride   Men   Thinking  
  • A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.

    Artist   Men   May  
    Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.150
  • The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

    Dad   Fall   Cat  
    Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.
  • Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

    "The portable Jack Kerouac".
  • To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!

    Children   Mean   Ideas  
  • The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator of Christ" and that if he wishes to bear that noble title worthily he must above all do as Christ charges us in the Gospel: We must oppose or deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow him.

    Christian   Jesus   Mean  
  • an imitator is always a poor example.

  • Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

  • Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

  • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

    Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897
  • Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

    "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.
  • Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

    Christian   Passion   Men  
  • The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

    Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.182
  • How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

    Order   Clean   Willing  
    Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus: A Heart Like His”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

    Daughter   Art   Soul  
  • Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

  • Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

  • The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

    Men   Ideas   Differences  
  • Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

  • Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

    "Clymène". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, V, 54, 1671.
  • In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

    Science   Men   Design  
  • Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

    Kind   Imitation   Cattle  
    Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.166
  • It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
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