Copying Quotes - Page 6

• We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

  Marcel Proust

  Drawing, Giving, Identity

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.236, Modern Library

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

  Aidan Turner

  Want, Mimicking, Subconscious

  Source: collider.com

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• Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Fool, Imitation

  Thomas Gainsborough (1963). “Letters”

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• I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.

  Keith Shackleton

  Photography, Reality, Pitfalls

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• Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.

  Spencer Wells

  Mistake, Long, Generations

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• 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

  Dream, Important, Doe

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• 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

  Lying, Everyday, Experience

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Needs, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.260, Penguin

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• What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

  Tom Morello

  Mean, Player, Guitar

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• I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Mean, Mad, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 8, 2004.

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• Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

  Walter Benjamin

  Running, Inspiration, Writing

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• 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

  Drawing, Trying, Copies

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Objectivity

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• I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

  Rainn Wilson

  Player, Games, Style

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

  Richard Dawkins

  Creativity, Ideas, Hijacking

  "The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist". Book by Gordon Fisher, 2014.

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• I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

  Bill Frisell

  Player, Saxophone, Trumpets

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• But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

  Michael Ballack

  Soccer, Team, Play

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

  Bill Gates

  Art, Names, Apples

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

  Oliver $

  Artist, Pay, Permission

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• "Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Business, Mean, Successful

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• Copying is about reverse-engineering.

  Austin Kleon

  Engineering, Reverse, Reverse Engineering

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.33, Workman Publishing

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• If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too

  Dave Hampton

  People, Being Positive, Lifestyle

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

  LeCrae

  Missing, Culture, Creator

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• Creativity means not copying.

  Ferran Adria

  Creativity, Mean

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