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“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Originals cost more than imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You were born an original work of art. Stay original.”
― Suzy Kassem

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.”
― Elena Secret

“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913

“An original is worth more than a copy.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

“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 found in three or four novels, and even in the lyrics of the Gymnase, a clear statement of their situation. The novels would have outlined for them the part to be played, shown them the model to copy; and this model, sooner or later, albeit without the slightest pleasure, and perhaps with reluctance, vanity would have compelled Julien to follow.

In a small town of the Aveyron or the Pyrenees, the slightest incident would have been made decisive by the ardour of the climate. Beneath our more sombre skies, a penniless young man, who is ambitious only because the refinement of his nature puts him in need of some of those pleasures which money provides, is in daily contact with a woman of thirty who is sincerely virtuous, occupied with her children, and never looks to novels for examples of conduct. Everything goes slowly, everything happens by degrees in the provinces: life is more natural.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I feel life today is too competitive to be enjoyable. Even if you don't want it to be, life is one intense competition, and how well you fare in it will determine your happiness and success. Most people just want to look like a winner more than they want to be a winner. I detest the competitiveness that permeates the society and how everything revolves around establishing yourself as a unique individual and honing skills that you can advertise in the market place. Contrary to popular belief, competition is not always beneficial. It adds a lot of unwanted frustration and stress. It can be destructive to one's self-esteem. Competition makes us imitate our competitors and we lose our identity in the midst of it. Why does it matter how successful someone else is in comparison to me? To be honest, I don't really care about being successful now. I just want the freedom to do anything I want without having to worry about social standards.”
― Sai Pradeep

“Kingsley could ‘do�� the sound of a brass band approaching on a foggy day. He could become the Metropolitan line train entering Edgware Road station. He could be four wrecked tramps coughing in a bus shelter (this was very demanding and once led to heart palpitations). To create the hiss and crackle of a wartime radio broadcast delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt was for him scant problem (a tape of it, indeed, was played at his memorial meeting, where I was hugely honored to be among the speakers). The pièce de résistance, an attempt by British soldiers to start up a frozen two-ton truck on a windy morning ‘somewhere in Germany,�� was for special occasions only. One held one's breath as Kingsley emitted the first screech of the busted starting-key. His only slightly lesser vocal achievement—of a motor-bike yelling in mechanical agony—once caused a man who had just parked his own machine in the street to turn back anxiously and take a look. The old boy's imitation of an angry dog barking the words 'fuck off' was note-perfect.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk”
― Dr. Amit Abraham

“..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“Monkey see, monkey do. Human being don’t see, human being don’t do.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“Coming face to face with Ugliness can be a misfortune or a blessing. We can imitate it and be one with it; or we can feel repugnance and appreciate the Beauty once and for all!”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“Looking the part is not ‘being�� the part.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People here have no imagination. They repeat whatever you say to them.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The end �� of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.”
― John Milton, Of Education

“By imitation you only promote a person you're imitating.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Don't imitate people in everything because there are imitations which ruin your life and destroy you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“At the time of appearing a wise man, hundreds of imitators will occure and trying to hide him with their lies, but at the end of the day, lies and truths are revealed.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“At an academic conference I learned the old adage that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.”
― Alex Beam, The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

“The weak imitates; the strong is imitated.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Дуже часто рекомендації західних держав щодо розвитку політики в бідніших країнах мало відрізняються від «ритуалів відновлення» в жителів острова Танна. Вони передбачають зовнішню імітацію інститутів, що мають стосунок до економічного процвітання розвинених країн, без належного врахування передумов їхнього добробуту �� умов, яких у відсталіших державах може й не бути.”
― Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

“We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“Monkey see, monkey imitate -
Human challenge is to find yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Our imitation of God in this life - that is, our willed imitation as distinct from any of the likenesses which He has impressed upon our natures or states - must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“ They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery./b> ”
― Guy Haley, Godblight

“I am of the temper of most kings, who love to be in debt, are all for present money, no matter how they pay it afterwards: besides, the nature of a preface is rambling, never wholly out of the way, nor in it. This I have learned from the practice of honest Montaigne, and return at my pleasure to Ovid and Chaucer, of whom I have little more to say.”
― John Dryden, Dryden

“Human behavior has plasticity and can be handled by mimicking others either for good or evil.”
― Maria Karvouni, You Are Always Innocent