Top 100 Never Copy Quotes
#1. You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
Jack Ma
#3. Learn from competitors but never copy them. Copy them and you will die.
Porter Erisman
#4. Competitors can never copy the you in your product.
Anonymous
#5. I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
Ronnie Wood
#6. Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
Wally Wood
#7. Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#8. Notepad++ or any advanced editor. All you need to do is copy the code and paste it into Notepad. Upon execution, you will get the output as depicted in the
Aravind Shenoy
#9. Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Christopher Lasch
#10. I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
David Robinson
#11. First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.
Austin Kleon
#12. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.
Michael J. Marx
#13. 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
#14. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
Mary Gordon
#15. 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
#16. If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.
Anuj
#17. I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.
Charles Hazlewood
#18. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.
Joseph Roth
#19. This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.
Chris Matakas
#21. They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
Afrika Bambaataa
#22. Read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
P.D. James
#23. 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
#24. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.
Stephen King
#25. I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Greg Proops
#26. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#27. We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
Richard Branson
#28. Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.
Virginia Woolf
#29. This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.
John Swartzwelder
#30. My wife has them all in a vault ... a copy of every album.
Jerry Goldsmith
#31. Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Peter Thiel
#32. I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.
Gustav Ejstes
#33. When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.
Carla Bruni
#34. I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can't throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins' greatest hits and chucked it at him.
Rachel Vincent
#35. One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
John Carpenter
#36. People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
Clayton Christensen
#37. They'll come back or they won't, Simon thought as he read the back copy on a couple of books and set them aside for himself.
Anne Bishop
#38. He kissed me. And then he said it was a mistake."
Serena wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Normally, I'd quote that copy of He's Just Not That Into You I picked up at a yard sale but-
Kathleen Peacock
#39. Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
Paul Gauguin
#40. Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
George Vecsey
#41. Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.
Sara Sheridan
#42. I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Gabrielle Reece
#43. I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.
Kelly Clarkson
#44. We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#45. The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
Andy Warhol
#46. I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy.
Lita Ford
#47. I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
Ellen Potter
#48. I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.
Henri Matisse
#49. If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
Peter Thiel
#51. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
Chris Riddell
#52. Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.
Igor Babailov
#53. I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
Joel Osteen
#54. What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.
John Caples
#55. I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
Rachel Johnson
#56. They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.
Chael Sonnen
#58. By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
Sarah MacLean
#59. There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.
Jerry Della Femina
#60. Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.
Donna Tartt
#61. The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?
Bill Maher
#62. You were born as an origional don't die as a copy
Sarah Farhat
#63. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated
Sun Tzu
#64. He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#65. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.
Myles Munroe
#66. Want to copy my stellar notes?" Cooper asked, scooting his desk closer.
Glancing at his notes, I shrugged. "You do have very nice penmanship. Dainty even."
"Bitch."
"Jackass."
"Gorgeous."
"Stud."
"You have no idea.
Bijou Hunter
#67. I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.
Abbas Kiarostami
#68. Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Jacob Bronowski
#69. Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
Jane Lindskold
#70. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!
L.M. Montgomery
#71. It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
Matt Ridley
#72. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.
Cathleen Schine
#73. If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
Cennino Cennini
#74. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
Edgar Allan Poe
#75. Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
Bethany Cosentino
#76. Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Robert Henri
#77. There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Caroline Corr
#78. 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
#79. Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
Robert Henri
#80. If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
#81. I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
Tariq Ali
#82. I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
Derek Luke
#83. I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.
Stuart Immonen
#84. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
Shawna Lemay
#85. There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.
Wes Craven
#86. Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
#87. Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
#88. The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the "world," and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.
Billy Graham
#89. I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.
Liam Aiken
#90. Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.
George Bernard Shaw
#91. I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
Venerable Bede
#92. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
#93. Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Vladimir Putin
#94. Ah, that's your problem," Riley said, relieved to be on familiar ground. "You've got a copy of Paradise Lost
in your house. Biblios hate Milton. Same with Dante, C.S. Lewis and most holy books. They'll go after those every time.
Jana Oliver
#95. 'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.
Richard D. Zanuck
#97. To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
John Mortimer
#98. There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next,
Robert Louis Stevenson
#99. For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!
Woody Allen
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