(156 quotes found)
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Marva Collins
“Imitation is suicide”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”
Aesop
“Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
Aristotle
“There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.”
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
Seneca
“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Ernst Fischer
“We do not imitate, but are a model to others”
Pericles
