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«Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Achievement,
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
imitate, imitated, wonderful
«All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.»
«Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anyway, be on, do-nothing, echo, example, explain, guard, image, imitate, on the way, reflection, shape, tend, The Image
«Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
elders, failed, imitate, listening
«Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Faults
| Keywords:
As Good as Dead, drop, drop dead, drop off, faults, good and, imitate, leaves, look for, take time off, time off
«Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Television
| Keywords:
imitate, imitates, My TV
«Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
approximate, approximates, characters, followers, imitate, pleases, The characters, unconsciously
«If I am walking with two other men, each of them I 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.»
«A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
caused, contrary, example, first cause, first principle, first principles, good example, imitate, influence, one-man, principles, republic, return, Return to, strive, virtues, wicked
«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»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
admire, blessed, envy, flatter, flat out, imitate, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, praise
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