Quotes about Copy

Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. Votes: 3

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words. Votes: 3

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. Votes: 3

Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA Votes: 3

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition. Votes: 3

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. Votes: 3

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself. Votes: 3

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. Votes: 3

Copy my favorite moves and my Tour-proven setup positions, and you'll start catching it on the sweet spot every time, with every club in your bag. Votes: 3

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. Votes: 3

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Votes: 3

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. Votes: 3

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me. Votes: 3

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make. Votes: 3

I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it. Votes: 3

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Votes: 2

Copy and paste is a design error. Votes: 2

We call ourselves creators and we just copy. Votes: 2

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. Votes: 2

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. Votes: 2

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. Votes: 2

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. Votes: 2

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Votes: 2

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. Votes: 2

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. Votes: 2

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. Votes: 2

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. Votes: 2

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. Votes: 2

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. Votes: 2

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. Votes: 2

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. Votes: 2

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. Votes: 2

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. Votes: 2

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. Votes: 2

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. Votes: 2

Don't copy, get inspired Votes: 1

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. Votes: 1

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value. Votes: 1

They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten. Votes: 1

Why be a copy, when you're a master copy mankind is looking for? Votes: 1

Why be a copy, when you're the master copy mankind is looking for? Votes: 1

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after Votes: 1

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. Votes: 1

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. Votes: 1

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Votes: 1

You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a man by his vibrations. Votes: 1

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. Votes: 1

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. Votes: 1

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism. Votes: 1

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry. Votes: 1

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. Votes: 1

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. Votes: 1

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove. Votes: 1

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours. Votes: 1

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? Votes: 1

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model. Votes: 1

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. Votes: 1

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea Votes: 1

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations. Votes: 1

Take notes. Everything is copy. Votes: 0

Good designers copy; great designers steal. Votes: 0

Good artists copy; great artists steal. Votes: 0

None but blockheads copy each other. Votes: 0

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Votes: 0

He who can copy can do. Votes: 0

Learn from everyone, copy no one. Votes: 0

Without theory we can only copy. Votes: 0

To copy is to invite disaster. Votes: 0

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. Votes: 0

To copy faults is want of sense. Votes: 0

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. Votes: 0

You were born original don't die a copy Votes: 0

My pleasure was to copy, not to create. Votes: 0

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. Votes: 0

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy Votes: 0

If you copy then it is not self-expression. Votes: 0

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything. Votes: 0

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. Votes: 0

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid. Votes: 0

Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility. Votes: 0

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own. Votes: 0

Readers know what the copy is going to say. Votes: 0

The copy price of the future is the copyright. Votes: 0

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. Votes: 0

The bible is a cheap copy of the Qur'an . Votes: 0

I have a look that girls want to copy. Votes: 0

Everything in art is but a copy of nature. Votes: 0

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it. Votes: 0

Have you seen a copy of Tax Tips for Billionaires? Votes: 0

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself. Votes: 0

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy Votes: 0

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over. Votes: 0

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. Votes: 0

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style. Votes: 0

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy. Votes: 0

It is better to invert reality than to copy it. Votes: 0

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. Votes: 0

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Votes: 0

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it. Votes: 0

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. Votes: 0

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. Votes: 0

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. Votes: 0

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy. Votes: 0

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead. Votes: 0

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. Votes: 0

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. Votes: 0

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.' Votes: 0

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. Votes: 0

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. Votes: 0

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. Votes: 0

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. Votes: 0

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. Votes: 0

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. Votes: 0

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa Votes: 0

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser! Votes: 0

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind. Votes: 0

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. Votes: 0

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters. Votes: 0

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. Votes: 0

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. Votes: 0

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album. Votes: 0

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? Votes: 0

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Votes: 0

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. Votes: 0

Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever. Votes: 0

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. Votes: 0

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. Votes: 0

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. Votes: 0

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style. Votes: 0

Ive never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style. Votes: 0

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else! Votes: 0

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. Votes: 0

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature. Votes: 0

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Votes: 0

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. Votes: 0

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. Votes: 0

Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle. Votes: 0

there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. Votes: 0

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it, Votes: 0

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. Votes: 0

If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway. Votes: 0

Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate. Votes: 0

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. Votes: 0

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow. Votes: 0

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Votes: 0

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. Votes: 0

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy. Votes: 0

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense Votes: 0

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. Votes: 0

Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible. Votes: 0

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy. Votes: 0

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors. Votes: 0

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. Votes: 0

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. Votes: 0

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. Votes: 0

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin. Votes: 0

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. Votes: 0

I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand. Votes: 0

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't. Votes: 0

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. Votes: 0

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. Votes: 0

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. Votes: 0

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do. Votes: 0

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it. Votes: 0

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. Votes: 0

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. Votes: 0

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. Votes: 0

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack. Votes: 0

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Votes: 0

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own. Votes: 0

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me. Votes: 0

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. Votes: 0

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call Votes: 0

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission. Votes: 0

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. Votes: 0

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. Votes: 0

You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! Votes: 0

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. Votes: 0

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. Votes: 0

If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy. Votes: 0

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories. Votes: 0

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me. Votes: 0

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." Votes: 0

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. Votes: 0

The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done. Votes: 0

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. Votes: 0

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. Votes: 0

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! Votes: 0

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. Votes: 0

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. Votes: 0

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me. Votes: 0

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better. Votes: 0

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy." Votes: 0

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote. Votes: 0

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. Votes: 0

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers. Votes: 0

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. Votes: 0

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired. Votes: 0

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. Votes: 0

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. Votes: 0

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. Votes: 0

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. Votes: 0

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. Votes: 0

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Votes: 0

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. Votes: 0

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. Votes: 0

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it. Votes: 0

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. Votes: 0

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. Votes: 0

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it." Votes: 0

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen. Votes: 0

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models. Votes: 0

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it. Votes: 0

I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days. Votes: 0

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual. Votes: 0

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice! Votes: 0

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. Votes: 0

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. Votes: 0

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. Votes: 0

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many. Votes: 0

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. Votes: 0

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries. Votes: 0

Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy." "“ Chloe Traeger Votes: 0

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy. Votes: 0

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together. Votes: 0

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me! Votes: 0

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. Votes: 0

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. Votes: 0

I have a copy of you in my brain; when you make me angry I do very bad things to you. Votes: 0

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect. Votes: 0

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. Votes: 0

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing. Votes: 0

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem. Votes: 0

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer. Votes: 0

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them. Votes: 0

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context. Votes: 0

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years. Votes: 0

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more. Votes: 0

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. Votes: 0

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy. Votes: 0

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today. Votes: 0

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up. Votes: 0

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Votes: 0

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it. Votes: 0

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. Votes: 0

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. Votes: 0

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Votes: 0

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. Votes: 0

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! Votes: 0

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out. Votes: 0

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate. Votes: 0

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them. Votes: 0

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. Votes: 0

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. Votes: 0

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do? Votes: 0

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. Votes: 0

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. Votes: 0

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that. Votes: 0

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy. Votes: 0

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting. Votes: 0

Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original. Votes: 0

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. Votes: 0

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan-but they don't know what to copy! Votes: 0

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. Votes: 0

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson. Votes: 0

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy. Votes: 0

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Votes: 0

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. Votes: 0

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. Votes: 0

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. Votes: 0

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style. Votes: 0

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. Votes: 0

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style. Votes: 0

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies. Votes: 0

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night. Votes: 0

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way. Votes: 0

Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. Votes: 0

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. Votes: 0

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid. Votes: 0

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for. Votes: 0

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. Votes: 0

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends. Votes: 0

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. Votes: 0

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' Votes: 0

Don't go by the anyone's idea of perfect. It's those people that are generally pretending to be a carbon copy of someone they're not. Votes: 0

The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. Votes: 0

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. Votes: 0

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. Votes: 0

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing. Votes: 0

Don't go by the anyone's idea of perfect. It's those people that are generally pretending to be a carbon copy of someone they're not." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. Votes: 0

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read. Votes: 0

I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can't throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins' greatest hits and chucked it at him. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. Votes: 0

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Votes: 0

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck. Votes: 0

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. Votes: 0

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. Votes: 0

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes. Votes: 0

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. Votes: 0

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. Votes: 0

I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he signed for me. Votes: 0

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style Votes: 0

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. Votes: 0

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. Votes: 0

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo. Votes: 0

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. Votes: 0

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. Votes: 0

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. Votes: 0

The trouble with us in America isn,t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy Votes: 0

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it. Votes: 0

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.' Votes: 0

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. Votes: 0

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can. Votes: 0

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. Votes: 0

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. Votes: 0

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record. Votes: 0

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. Votes: 0

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject. Votes: 0

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe. Votes: 0

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. Votes: 0

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. Votes: 0

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy. Votes: 0

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer. Votes: 0

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. Votes: 0

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others. Votes: 0

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike. Votes: 0

I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it. Votes: 0

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. Votes: 0

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.' Votes: 0

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. Votes: 0

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing. Votes: 0

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. Votes: 0

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. Votes: 0

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy. Votes: 0

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy. Votes: 0

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note. Votes: 0

the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. Votes: 0

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. Votes: 0

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy. Votes: 0

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. Votes: 0

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. Votes: 0

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. Votes: 0

By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf. Votes: 0

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide. Votes: 0

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully. Votes: 0

What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek. Votes: 0

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear. Votes: 0

Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge. Votes: 0

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. Votes: 0

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy." Votes: 0

When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better. Votes: 0

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends. Votes: 0

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'. Votes: 0

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point. Votes: 0

No," said Hermione shortlyHave either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?""Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," said Ron, but very quietly." Votes: 0

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops. Votes: 0

Based on hundreds of tests conducted, a good headline can be as much as 17 times more effective than a so-so headline. And this is with exactly the same body copy! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy. Votes: 0

You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt. It doesn't have the vibration or the power. Votes: 0

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique. Votes: 0

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Votes: 0

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. Votes: 0

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. Votes: 0

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians". Votes: 0

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. Votes: 0

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you. Votes: 0

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. Votes: 0

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.... Votes: 0

He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom. Votes: 0

PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains. Votes: 0

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 0

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be. Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback. Votes: 0

A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine. Votes: 0

I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything. Votes: 0

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall. Votes: 0

I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them. Votes: 0

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy. Votes: 0

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe. Votes: 0

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result. Votes: 0

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone. Votes: 0

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company. Votes: 0

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different. Votes: 0

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before. Votes: 0

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed. Votes: 0

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix. Votes: 0

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff. Votes: 0

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. Votes: 0

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off. Votes: 0

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock." Votes: 0

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do. Votes: 0

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital. Votes: 0

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place. Votes: 0

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you Votes: 0

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me. Votes: 0

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job. Votes: 0

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God. Votes: 0

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge. Votes: 0

I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover. Votes: 0

HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it. Votes: 0

He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy. He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of the ball. I just like watching him hit. Votes: 0

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. Votes: 0

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. Votes: 0

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first. Votes: 0

When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark. Votes: 0

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells. Votes: 0

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. Votes: 0