Every creative project starts as an imitation. You begin by mapping what you already know or have previously seen onto the situation. But if you iterate and recombine enough, it becomes an original.

People are eager to walk in other people’s pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a “tortoise” walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!

Above all things — read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism — self-denial.

Don’t envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

Through others we become ourselves.

The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. When shaping your own, you may watch the process of another person’s dreams, but keep eyes away from the...

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children...

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at...

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

Don’t Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Imitation is suicide

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you...

I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least...

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others’ posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others’ posts, write but never think and...

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose...

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.

Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because you have found someone and decided to be like him/her.

In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have...

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

An imitation rough diamond.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it’s time to show the...

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, “i did it”, without any confidence and prove.

You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

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.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.

I don’t like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don’t like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there’s a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this...

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn’t redeemed merely by the fact that it’s Christian.

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.