“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”
Aesop
“Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.”
Mark Grant
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Marva Collins
“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
“Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting”
Jonathan Swift
“There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him”
Benjamin Franklin
“In literature imitations do not imitate”
Mark Twain
