Not Copying Quotes

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995. — Jakob Nielsen

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

Copying is the highest form of flattery — Tito Sotto

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening. — James Hetfield

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. — Damien Hirst

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach

It's like copying truths from God's notebook, though we aren't always sure where to find this notebook or when it will be open. — Yoko Ogawa

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. — John Sebastian

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. — Joseph Plaskett

Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop! — Jasper Fforde

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

Creativity means not copying. — Ferran Adria

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG. — Sam Kean

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

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock. — Billy Corgan

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. — Steve Guttenberg

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. — Georges Braque

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly. — Yoko Ono

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

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. — Igor Babailov

You can't make experimental work by copying past work. — Trey Parker

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. — Lana Del Rey

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

Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing. — Austin Kleon

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. — Ellsworth Kelly

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

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. — Chet Atkins

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? — Theodore Gericault

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

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too — Paul Cezanne

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. — Alberto Giacometti

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing. — Peter Thiel

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. — Michelangelo

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

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing! — Michael Angelo Batio

If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps. — Mohith Agadi

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. — Winston Churchill

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

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. — John Fowles

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck

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

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! — Karl Lagerfeld

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

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out. — Robin Trower

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow. — Paul Sloane

Band geeks are the original," I explain. "Orchestra dorks are simply copying our amazingly uncool status. — Sarah Tregay

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. — Tite Kubo

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation — Thomas Gainsborough

Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool — Tarang Sinha

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

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

Copying my styles is not equivalent to conquering me. — Srinivas Shenoy

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968. — Arthur Rock

We have become a society of fakes, so intent copying the famous that we cannot figure out who we are. — Robert A. Giacalone

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne

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

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. — LeCrae

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot innovate by copying. — Larry Ellison