Top 100 Quotes About Copying

#1. 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

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

Lexi Alexander

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

Chet Atkins

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

Laurie Simmons

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#6. 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

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

Claes Oldenburg

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#8. 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

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#9. You cannot innovate by copying.

Larry Ellison

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#10. 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

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#11. 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

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#12. 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

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

James Hetfield

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

Seth Godin

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

Neil Gaiman

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#16. 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

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

Winston Churchill

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#18. 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

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

David Boies

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

Michelangelo

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#21. 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

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#22. 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

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#23. 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

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#24. 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

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#25. 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

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#26. 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

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#27. 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

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

Jakob Nielsen

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#29. Copying is the highest form of flattery

Tito Sotto

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#30. 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

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

Beth Moore

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#32. 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

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#33. 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

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#34. 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

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#35. 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

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#36. -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

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

Joseph Plaskett

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#38. 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

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

Paul Cezanne

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#40. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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#42. It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Niall Ferguson

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

Aidan Turner

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#44. It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

Steve Jobs

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#45. 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

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#46. There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

J.G. Ballard

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#47. Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.

Austin Kleon

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#48. We are gene-copying bio-robots, living out here on a lonely planet in a cold and empty physical universe.

Thomas Ligotti

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#49. For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

Rumi

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#50. Creativity means not copying.

Ferran Adria

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#51. I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

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#52. It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

Michael Morpurgo

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#53. There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips

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#54. A problem I've always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man "superior" is how close he can get to "embodying manliness

Sheila Heti

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#55. If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

Jay Baer

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#56. I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.

Douglas Huebler

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#57. 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

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#58. 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

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#59. In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.

Alfred Doblin

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#60. IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

Arthur Rock

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#61. Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

John Dyer Baizley

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#62. Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Austin Kleon

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#63. 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

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#64. 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

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#65. We have become a society of fakes, so intent copying the famous that we cannot figure out who we are.

Robert A. Giacalone

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#66. 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 out the sum for themselves.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#67. I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

Karl Lagerfeld

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#68. Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

Charles Duhigg

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#69. When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

Charlie Watts

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#70. I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Henri Matisse

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#71. We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

Lawrence Lessig

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#72. 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

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#73. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Betty Friedan

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#74. 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

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#75. You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

Damien Hirst

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#76. 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

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#77. Following of authority in any form, whether self-imposed or established from outside, as well as any form of imitation, copying, is destructive of incentive, of creativeness, and that it blocks the discovery of what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#78. It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Jesse Eisenberg

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#79. We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them ... blah blah blah.

Kool Moe Dee

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#80. Band geeks are the original," I explain. "Orchestra dorks are simply copying our amazingly uncool status.

Sarah Tregay

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#81. People who copy you will always be one step behind.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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#82. The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Frank Gehry

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#83. The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

Will Advise

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#84. 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

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

Shia Labeouf

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#86. 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

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#87. The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

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#88. 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

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#89. You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Trey Parker

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#90. 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

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#91. To model an object is to possess it.

Pablo Picasso

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#92. 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

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#93. One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#94. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#95. We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

Donatella Versace

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#96. from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise we make

John Shirley

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#97. Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Richard Rhodes

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#98. I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Joe Pass

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#99. If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps.

Mohith Agadi

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#100. I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Alan Furst

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