Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
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.
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll.
But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we lon...
A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arc...
Alan Turing: Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? W...
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
