I Quotes
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“Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.”
“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”
Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive
“Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.”
Source: The One by Whom Scandal Comes
“Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.”
Source: Poetics
“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.”
Source: Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.”
“Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Imitation is suicide.”
“Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.”
“Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].”
“Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration.”
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery' all too often means 'Appropriation is the easiest form of thievery'.”
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.”
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery.”
“Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.”
“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.”
Source: Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does
“Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.”
Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest
“Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.”
Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.”
“Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching you is nothing but imitation. Religious people - the so-called religious people, the priests, the theologians - they are also teaching you, `Be like Jesus, be like Buddha, be like Krishna.` Nobody ever tells you, `Just be yourself` - nobody. Everybody is against you, it seems. Nobody allows you to be yourself, nobody gives you any freedom. You can be in this world, but you must imitate somebody.”
“Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.”
“Imitation limits imaginations”
“Imitation nation by nation, the simple means of communication and conflict. Stranger than fiction, always has been this way. In the heart of Rome, I never wanted this Halloween season to end, sweet dreams of dark love and wild west wide nights the universe was inside all along. The mystic river beyond metaphysical questions, I can't believe these pink walls anymore, can't remember the names of every street corner I lost my mind to every kind of street art sensual experience.
Sunrise rooftops, all the make-up in the world couldn't heal the wounds from the false words in the every day scene of the fiery red lips predicting a gone future puff by single breath. Seeing my skin peel off the city lights.”
Source: Prima Materia
“Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.”
Source: The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Acount of the Life and Writing of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published
“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.”
“Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.”
“Imitations only better the original.”
“Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.”
“Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.]”
“Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
“Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.”
“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”
“Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee!”
“Imma send you from venue to venue, from stage to stage, and from page to page. You'll just get better with age.”
Source: Hills And Valleys and the Spiritual Warfare in Between
“Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.”
“immaculate middle-of-the-night quiet
rainlessness
the late moony sadness
of the one specific mosquito
dear someone
you habituate me to the invisible
I exit through you not as myself”
Source: The Last Usable Hour
“Immaginiamo un’AI sviluppata per trovare una soluzione alla fame del mondo: essa, essendo goal-oriented e non condividendo la morale umana, potrebbe semplicemente decidere che il modo più facile, efficace e veloce per metter fine al problema sia quello di sterminare due miliardi di terrestri, piuttosto che inventare nuovi metodi di agricoltura.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Immagino che siamo tutti come fiammelle di candele accese, scintillanti, tremule nell'oscurità e poi immagino l'ululato del vento, e nel silenzio della stanza sent dei passi che vengono a soffiare su di me e a ridurre la mia vita a un refolo di fumo grigio. Mi dissolverò nell'aria e nella notte. Ci spegneranno tutti, uno a uno, finchè non rimarrà altro che la loro luce, e solo quella vedranno. Dove sarò allora?”
“Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead.
I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.”
Source: Immanuel's Veins
“Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!”
“Immanuel Kant is quoted to have said: “In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” The question is who knows the intentions and who can provide absolute justice. Even if we could know intentions and start enforcing punishment, the suffering is irreversible as the punishment can only take the life of the murderer at best. Criminals responsible for genocide and unjust wars cannot be accorded with absolute justice even if they accept all their crimes. Belief in afterlife accountability promises absolute justice for every small act of evil or kindness in this life. It enlightens human’s life and makes every act of everyone relevant. Belief in afterlife accountability actualizes the cause and effect in moral matters.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.”
“Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!”
“Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.”
Source: Morning by Morning