Quotes About Copying Others

#1. Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Seth Godin

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Nathalie Sarraute

#6. When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

Robert Adams

#7. 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

#8. Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

Jakob Nielsen

#9. Copying is the highest form of flattery

Tito Sotto

#10. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

Arnold Arre

#11. Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

Beth Moore

#12. Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Edward Felten

#13. Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades

#14. I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Cindy Sherman

#15. Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

Henry James

#16. -Climb out of mediocrity, it has no integrity. Climb out of imitation it is a limitation. Climb higher than copying, it is double standard. Come up to be original

Ikechukwu Joseph

#17. No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

Joseph Plaskett

#18. 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

#19. It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Paul Cezanne

#20. 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

#21. The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Yoko Ono

#22. The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Seth Godin

#23. You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Peter Thiel

#24. When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Criss Jami

#25. I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Bill Frisell

#26. Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Lexi Alexander

#27. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Jimi Hendrix

#28. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Chet Atkins

#29. I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

Laurie Simmons

#30. Diane Harper had been sneakily copying, and was making a nurse costume, too, but being Diane, it turned out looking more like a Playboy Bunny without the ears. Alison's, however, was beautiful.

Robin Klein

#31. My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

Claes Oldenburg

#32. As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

Vijender Singh

#33. You cannot innovate by copying.

Larry Ellison

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

James Hetfield

#38. Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Neil Gaiman

#39. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Francis Crick

#40. The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Winston Churchill

#41. 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

#42. The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

David Boies

#43. Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

Michelangelo

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.

Chester Carlson