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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.
No one want to be an imitation of another
The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?),
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Someone with many, strong mirror neurons could have a flexible personality - capable of mimicking others as the situation calls for it rather than remaining constant.
Imitation leads to exhilaration when you follow it back to its source.
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
Imitation is flattery
To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
I'm representing myself only & no one can imitate me ever
simulacrum, but a policewoman in disguise.
Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry?
Have they?
What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature..
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches - even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research -
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
In imitation is a bit suicide.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22
Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.
Whoever imitates a people is one of them.
He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Spiderlike, I spin mirrors,
Loyal to my image.
Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.
I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.
When in doubt, emulate.
One of the first comic things you do is imitate.
Imitation limits imaginations
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression ... dance, dance
Like a dancing bear,
Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.
Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
A trained bus thrower like Gabriel, or Robin Hood wannabe like Scarlet, or a ninja assassin like Tristan
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.
Here too it's masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show ...
I'd gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Never imitate, but never forget to emulate the best.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Imitation is criticism.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.
I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
Imitations only better the original.
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
I love doing impersonations of people.
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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.
I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.
The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.
Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation.
Imitating someone is the mediocre way of getting humanity back to what we evolved from.
Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.