To Copy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

Piet Oudolf

#3. I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

Elton John

#4. Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)

Milan Kundera

#5. It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

#6. It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Nicole Richie

#7. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Jana Novotna

#8. The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

William Blake

#9. The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Annie Leibovitz

#10. I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

Clint Eastwood

#11. I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple products and the problems that would create for us.

Phil Schiller

#12. My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Robert Plant

#13. In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

Tim Burton

#14. God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

#15. Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Steve Jobs

#16. No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Gary Wright

#17. Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

Edmund Phelps

#18. Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Peter Blegvad

#19. To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

Idries Shah

#20. People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after

Oliver Goldsmith

#21. I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#22. For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?

Milan Kundera

#23. When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

Niklas Zennstrom

#24. To copy is to invite disaster.

W. Edwards Deming

#25. Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

#26. I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

Jimmy Page

#27. Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

Sergei Bongart

#28. Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy ... if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

Johnny Cash

#29. Give me grace to be holy, kind, gentle, pure, peaceable, to live for Thee and not for self, to copy Thy words, acts, spirit, to be transformed into Thy likeness, to be consecrated wholly to Thee, to live entirely to Thy glory.

Anonymous

#30. Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#31. I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

Kit Harington

#32. I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

Andrea Tantaros

#33. [M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

Samuel Rutherford

#34. My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

Tamara De Lempicka

#35. The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

Babette Cole

#36. The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

John Denver

#37. If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

K. Eric Drexler

#38. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

W. Edwards Deming

#39. I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

Miyavi

#40. I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#41. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.

William Carlos Williams

#42. Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

Juan Enriquez

#43. It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

Pekka Vasala

#44. If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind ...

Cennino Cennini

#45. Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Leon Kass

#46. Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

David Novak

#47. Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

Richelle Mead

#48. To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Churchill

#49. I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

Joe Goddard

#50. Your life is your spiritual path.
It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.

Sandy Nathan

#51. I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.

Jeanette Winterson

#52. Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

Jan Koum

#53. A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Karl Kraus

#54. We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Mohnish Pabrai

#55. It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Edgar Degas

#56. The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

#57. Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Gus Van Sant

#58. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

#59. There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

Neymar

#60. S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.

Cory Doctorow

#61. The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

George Saintsbury

#62. Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

Carl Zimmer

#63. I recommend that you should work actively ... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

Kazimir Malevich

#64. Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Eric Ries

#65. Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

Brian Setzer

#66. When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.

Jennifer Lee

#67. Never try to copy a successful personality.

Bruce Lee

#68. The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Auguste Rodin

#69. Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility.

J.C. Ryle

#70. To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi

#71. It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

Ron Ranson

#72. It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

William Ernest Henley

#73. To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

J. E. H. MacDonald

#74. No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

Missy Elliott

#75. Your ability to copy is the biggest predictor of the success that you'll have in life".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#76. Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

Eleanor Rathbone

#77. We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Natalie Wood

#78. My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Manuel Puig

#79. When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.

Clayton M Christensen

#80. I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

Paul Cezanne

#81. Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

#82. I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

Margaret Mahy

#83. If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored ... and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Joe Perry

#84. When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Chris Carter

#85. Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.

Lawrence Durrell

#86. Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us.

Ilie Nastase

#87. I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

Shel Silverstein

#88. To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso

#89. We've made the mistake of trying to copy the methodology of "success" rather than the process behind the methodology.

Don Cousins

#90. If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

Pharrell Williams

#91. Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

Anuj

#92. It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Giuseppe Verdi

#93. To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

#94. A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we're incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.

Austin Kleon

#95. In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

Farah Diba

#96. If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

Gloria Estefan

#97. Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Dan Farmer

#98. When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Dita Von Teese

#99. '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

#100. It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi