Angela Sarafyan Quotes

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

None of us today know how to get computers to learn with the speed and flexibility of a child.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

Man is an imitative creature.

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Be an empty page, untouched by words.

By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

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

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.