IMITATION

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(819 votes)  Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(637 votes)  Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(619 votes)  Defend your limitations and you own them!

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(588 votes)  Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Fred Allen
American Businessman, Chairman of Pitney-Bowes

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(574 votes)  I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Martina Navratilova
1956-, American Tennis Player

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(555 votes)  No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(554 votes)  There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(549 votes)  Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(547 votes)  He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.

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(547 votes)  If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee
1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist

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(546 votes)  The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(535 votes)  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(533 votes)  Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(528 votes)  There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman

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(525 votes)  Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

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(522 votes)  Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Cavett Robert

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(516 votes)  Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(515 votes)  An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(510 votes)  When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(498 votes)  Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos
1917-, Paraguayan Novelist

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(488 votes)  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.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(488 votes)  We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(488 votes)  As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

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(486 votes)  Imitation belittles.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(485 votes)  You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(485 votes)  Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Jamie Paolinetti

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(485 votes)  You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

Marsha Sinetar
American Author of ''To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love''

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(483 votes)  To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

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(483 votes)  To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship

Wendell Phillips
1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator

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(483 votes)  To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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(477 votes)  To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(476 votes)  Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein
1874-1946, American Author

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(471 votes)  I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(469 votes)  One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

Francesco Guicciardini
1483-1540, Italian Historian

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(466 votes)  It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.

David J. Schwartz
American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

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(466 votes)  Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

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(463 votes)  Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter

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(458 votes)  Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade
1838-1875, American Writer

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(452 votes)  Our actions throughout the day seek to imitate nature by having a purpose. Kindness is like the rising of the sun that sheds new light on matters and compassion is like the rain that washes a way the old and nurtures new life.

Michael Heninger
Social Services

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(438 votes)  Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton
1949-, British Poet, Critic

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(434 votes)  Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

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