Quotes About Copying Someone Else

#1. 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

#2. I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Aidan Turner

#3. Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

Gavin MacLeod

#4. So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls,

Diana Gabaldon

#5. If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

Mark Twain

#6. In my book, everything considered immoral, foolish and unhealthy is fine in moderate measurements.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#7. Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Sebastian Bach

#8. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri

#9. Some of you were born with talent, some weren't. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you got nothing. But remember, when you're out on the ice you're all equals. And there's one thing you need to know: desire always beats luck.

Fredrik Backman

#10. David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.

Charlie Kaufman

#11. I mentioned at the beginning of this book that people are generally not swayed to action by information. A few people are driven by information, and those people tend to be geeks, like yours truly.

Robb Wolf

#12. Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Shia Labeouf

#13. 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

#14. What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

Laura Story

#15. People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.

Mark Lawrence

#16. I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Jennifer Aniston

#17. I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Gil Scott-Heron

#18. I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

Jamaica Kincaid

#19. Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

Neil Postman

#20. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

Alice Herz-Sommer