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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects – Louis XIV of France	added by anonymous 11 years ago
You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside. – Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996	added by anonymous 13 years ago
First you imitate, then you innovate. – Miles Davis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see. – Jim Morrison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. – Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. – T.S. Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. – T. S. Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. – William Arthur Ward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. – Niccolo Machiavelli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Arthur Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. – John Ruskin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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