Madison Smartt Bell

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

American Novelist

Rudolf Steiner

In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.

Austrian Philosopher

Pankaj Mishra

Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

Indian Novelist

Ivan Reitman

I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

Canadian Actor

John Hockenberry

An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

American Journalist

Tim Blake Nelson

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

American Director

George Pierce Baker

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

American Educator

Henry Flynt

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

American Artist

Mary McCarthy

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

American Author

Octavia E. Butler

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

American Writer

Describes how one learns by observing and replicating others' actions or works.

Imitation in Learning

Highlights the lack of originality, where creations closely resemble the source.

Not Original

Useful for mastering skills by mirroring experts' methods or strategies.

Learning Technique

In art, refers to techniques that strive to replicate or resemble reality closely.

Artistic Technique

Implies artists' efforts to imitate the appearance, sounds, or other aspects of the natural world.

Replicating Nature

Imitative words are created to sound like the thing they describe, known as onomatopoeia.

Sound Replication

While some imitative words are clear, others may not be as apparent in their mimicry.

Not Always Obvious

 and nature the people who looked out the brick wall were in the hospital longer needed more medication and had more medical complications there's something very restorative about nature nets and it's part of how we are tuned humans particularly so we're very imitative creatures and we imitate from almost a

The surprising science...

 delights the people around her cats learn by watching and that that's the reason we have the word copycat in our language I mean cats really do copy behavior and associative learning and that requires a little bit more smarts the fact that she's she's learned this imitative behavior very quickly on one

Nora The Piano Playing...

 it turns out. So any time we see an attack on the news, we tend to ask one Why? Why did that happen? Well, I can tell you I've read thousands of manifestos, and what you find out is that they are actually imitative.