Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

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.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

You become like what you worship

We always become like the one we worship!

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.

It's a copycat league.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

That's all life is, I guess. Just a bunch of riffs. Look at me: I'm wearing a tie. Why am I wearing a tie? It's because I saw an adult wear a tie and I thought, Oh, that's what people do. We're all just trying to be what an adult is.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

People want to know that there's someone else out there that looks like them.

I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.