Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. — Jean Cocteau
Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. — Billie Holiday
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong
We only have so many faces in our pockets — Marlon Brando
Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. — Doug Coupland
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. — Douglas Coupland
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. — Jerry Brown
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. — Anatole France
There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. — Ted Danson
Short Copies Quotes
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix
The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others. — Masaru Ibuka
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. — Jack Ma
Keep an eye on the competition… but this doesn’t mean copying them. — Estee Lauder
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. — Oliver Goldsmith
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. — Kylian Mbappe
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno
I don’t want to be a copy of anyone else. — Kylian Mbappe
Copies Image Quotes
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
If Someone Copies You Quotes
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. — Tony Robbins
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else. — Dolph Lundgren
If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost. — Pharrell Williams
Never be afraid to be yourself. Remember an original is worth more than a copy.
If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway. — Eric Ries
Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money. — Marco Arment
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish. — Brad Pitt
You were born an original. Don't die a copy !
It's like, are you kidding me? I'd sell way more if I just put a picture of my face. That's the fact. I'd sell more copies of me just looking cute. That's what sells more. That's what sells at Wal-Mart. Not someone in a bathtub looking like they're about to kill someone. Topless. — Sky Ferreira
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway. — Eric Ries
Can You Copy Quotes
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up. — Wally Wood
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. — Lee Ann Womack
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. — David Ogilvy
When a competitor starts copying your features, you can pretty much write them off completely, as it means they ran out of innovative ideas. — Cliff Lerner
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. — Ritchie Blackmore
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. — Tom Petty
You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job. — Roger Deakins
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship. — Cennino Cennini
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect. — Thomas Eakins
Copy Imitate Quotes
There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone. — Neymar
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. — Augusto Roa Bastos
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — T. S. Eliot
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. — Juvenal
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence. — Madame de Stael
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. — Yogi Berra
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. — Pablo Picasso
Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. — Tito Sotto
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour. — Walter J. Phillips
How To Copy Quotes
To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better. — Marshall Goldsmith
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. — Quentin Crisp
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. — Erma Bombeck
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow. — Diana Vreeland
I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style. — Jana Novotna
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. — Quentin Crisp
What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold. — John Updike
I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself. — Susanna Hoffs
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see. — Patricia McCormick
One of the magical side effects of having a culture of copying is the establishment of trends. People think this is a magical thing. How does it happen? Because it's legal [in the fashion industry] for people to copy one another. — Johanna Blakley
Do Not Copy Quotes
I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly. — Santiago Calatrava
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that. — Jackie Collins
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. — John Fowles
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client. — David Ogilvy
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. — Norman Vincent Peale
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! — John Green
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty. — Brittany Snow
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied. — Dan Fouts
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. — Michael Schenker
This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice! — Young Thug
Original And Copy Quotes
Not long ago, I said to one of our designers, ‘Why don’t you take a trip to Japan and see what the teenage girls are wearing on the streets at night?… I did not say to the designer, Go and see what kinds of shoes they are wearing and copy them.’ — Bernard Arnault
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before. — Miyavi
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. — Maurice Wilkins
The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals. — Walt Disney
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil. — Joshua Reynolds
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. — C. S. Lewis
Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original. — Marcelo Goianira
I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. But I've got two copies of the guitar now, to remind of the original Teardrop. — Dave Wakeling
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. — Hugh Hopper
Be Original Not A Copy Quotes
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. — Stendhal
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. — Julie Andrews
You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy. — Myles Munroe
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied. — Samuel Johnson
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying. — Shams Tabrizi
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city. — Janine Benyus
In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world. — Bonnie Tyler
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington
One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient's blood. — Jennifer Doudna
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do? — Ronnie Shakes
Just gave Jordan Mechner a very late $40 for the pirated copies of Karateka and Prince of Persia in my youth. — John Carmack
The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself. — John Denver
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. — Peter Thiel
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.
Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. — Jay Griffiths
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. — Richard Stallman
Why do we have schizophrenia in every culture on this planet? From an evolutionary perspective, schizophrenia is not a cool thing to have. ... Schizophrenia is not an adaptive trait. You can show this formally: schizophrenics have a lower rate of leaving copies of their genes in the next generation than unaffected siblings. By the rules, by the economics of evolution, this is a maladaptive trait. Yet, it chugs along at a one to two percent rate in every culture on this planet. — Robert M. Sapolsky
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living. — Richard Dawkins
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them. — Joan Aiken
A digital currency that would survive a nuclear war: the full Bitcoin transaction history, all the way back to the genesis block, exists in over 10,000 copies located in over 100 countries - and that's just counting the listening copies running live. — Nick Szabo
On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. — Brian Clark
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. — Steve Jobs
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Sayings
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