Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our o...
Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitiou...
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we l...
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.
Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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