Top 47 Copying You Quotes
#1. The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!
Jay Baer
#3. I'm not copying you!" Luke said. "A werewolf is totally different than a vampire! You're creepy all the time. Mine is just, like, a monthly thing ... "
"Like PMS?" I suggested.
"Shut up!
Flynn Meaney
#4. When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
Jack White
#5. Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Edward Felten
#6. In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.
Ferran Adria
#7. You can't make experimental work by copying past work.
Trey Parker
#8. If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps.
Mohith Agadi
#9. Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.
Yohji Yamamoto
#10. Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
Robin Trower
#12. The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.
Joshua Reynolds
#13. Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second ... You see the sequence.
Paul Gauguin
#14. You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
Peter Thiel
#15. Oh,right.Like he's been in a monestary copying scripture for the last ten years." Kate squared her shoulders, her feminist flag waving high. "It's none of his damn business if you've taken on the Fifth,Six,and Seventh fleets.
Nora Roberts
#16. When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
Cennino Cennini
#17. When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss Jami
#18. Admiring doesn't make you exactly like what you admire, admire yourself and you will be original and exactly how you wish and feel to be.
Auliq Ice
#19. I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.
Freddie Hubbard
#20. 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
#21. Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
Billy Corgan
#22. Do you know that line of Kierkegaard's, Canon Chambers? "There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves."
James Runcie
#23. 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
#24. Good one," said Ron, copying it down. "Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don't you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?" "Yeah . . . cool . . ." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because . . . Venus is in the twelfth house.
J.K. Rowling
#25. You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
Frederick Franck
#26. While you've been away, I've been copying poems out in a book so that I could whisper them to you as you fell asleep.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Forget "minimum viable products" - ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others' successes.
Peter Thiel
#28. Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Lexi Alexander
#30. When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
James Hetfield
#31. Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
Seth Godin
#32. The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Peter Thiel
#33. Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed and never before that. Expecting someone's approval is a waste of time.
Robin Sacredfire
#34. You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.
Hsu Yun
#35. 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
#36. The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.
Rebel Wilson
#38. Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.
D.T. Suzuki
#39. The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.
Yoko Ono
#40. Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
Christopher Willard
#41. Being yourself is the meat and potatoes of mothering, and if you are forever copying someone else's way you are apt to lose touch with your own truth.
Janet P. Penley
#42. There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.
Stephen Chbosky
#44. In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling.
Nicholson Baker
#45. Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.
Francois Englert
#46. You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
Damien Hirst
#47. 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
