Warren Buffett Quotes

Kids get influenced by other kids.

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

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

Human beings all mimic each other.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

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.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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

I borrow bits from everyone.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

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

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

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.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Man is an imitative creature.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Faults are soon copied.

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

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.