{"quotes":[{"text":"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["creativity","excellence","genius","greatness","imitation","individuality","inner-beauty","inner-light","inner-self","inner-world","inspirational-motivational","inspirational","motivational","originality","success","uniqueness","value"],"id":1413,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["approval","be-different","be-unique","be-you","be-yourself","confidence","cool","coolest","copy","copy-someone","copycat","copycats","follower","haters","imitate","imitation","individualism","individuality","know-your-worth","life","love-yourself","originality","peer-pressure","self-love","social-approval","unique","value","weird","worth"],"id":2936,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?","author":"Alfred de Vigny","tags":["life","imitation","arts "],"id":6121,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Vigny"},{"text":"Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["be-yourself","fake","footprints","imitation","originality"],"id":15467,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.","author":"Albert Pinkham Ryder","tags":["art","emanation","imitation","inspiration"],"id":19092,"author_id":"Albert+Pinkham+Ryder"},{"text":"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["imitation","individuality","invention"],"id":19782,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["conformity","creativity","imitate","imitation","imitations","innovation","innovation"],"id":37521,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"An echo has no voice of its own.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["a-voice-of-one-s-own","authenticity","imitation","inauthenticity"],"id":64542,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.","author":"François-René de Chateaubriand","tags":["imitation","originality","writers","writing"],"id":68865,"author_id":"Fran%C3%A7ois-Ren%C3%A9+de+Chateaubriand"},{"text":"Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["adherent","christ","christianity","follower","imitation","imitator","life","teaching"],"id":79966,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":99,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}