Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Man is an imitative creature.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

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

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.