Yep, I do that a lot. I've even done it in small ways without noticing right away. For example, 2 common things I do now - use a ":p" emote and using "yeh" instead of "yeah" - I picked up from someone who was in a leadership position over me in a gaming clan and I really admired a lot of traits about him. I still admire him in some ways. He's been through a lot in his personal life (we became good friends to the point I know more about him than some IRL friends of his) and despite all of the horrible things in his past is now leading a pretty healthy life and doing good things with his past experiences to help kids that are going through similar.

I tend to gravitate towards people who I think I can learn from it seems. Like current favorite person, he's also very strong emotionally and determined and I admire that a lot.