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Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. -- Shirley Polykoff
Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words. -- Dan Poynter
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. -- Jack Ma
Buy American Doesnâ??t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA -- Bruce Schneier
Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition. -- Seth Godin
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. -- Jacques Lipchitz
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself. -- Yohji Yamamoto
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. -- George Herbert
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. -- Sergio Garcia
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. -- Bill Walsh
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 -- Bill Walsh
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. -- Paul Rand
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. -- Robert Patterson
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. -- William Blake
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. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Good artists copy, great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
Copy and paste is a design error. -- David Parnas
We call ourselves creators and we just copy. -- Lauryn Hill
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. -- Dennis Rodman
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -- Jimi Hendrix
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. -- Elvis Presley
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. -- Jean Cocteau
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. -- Billie Holiday
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. -- Tony Robbins
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. -- Billie Holiday
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. -- Jonathan Davis
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. -- Hayley Williams
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. -- Dean Koontz
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. -- Jackie Collins
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
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
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. -- Madison Smartt Bell
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. -- Helmut Newton
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
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. -- William S. Burroughs
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. -- J. G. Ballard
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. -- Ellen DeGeneres
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. -- Charles Duhigg
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. -- J. G. Ballard
Don't copy, get inspired -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. -- Amit Kalantri
In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value. -- Amit Kalantri
They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten. -- James W. Bodden
Why be a copy, when you're a master copy mankind is looking for? -- Constance Chuks Friday
Why be a copy, when you're the master copy mankind is looking for? -- Constance Chuks Friday
People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after -- Oliver Goldsmith
The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. -- Amit Kalantri
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. -- Suzy Kassem
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a man by his vibrations. -- Suzy Kassem
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. -- Edith Wharton
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. -- Paul Cezanne
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism. -- Amit Kalantri
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry. -- Ryan Lilly
Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. -- Suzy Kassem
Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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? -- Mervyn Peake
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. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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 -- Gyan Nagpal
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. -- Suzy Kassem
Take notes. Everything is copy. -- Nora Ephron
Good designers copy; great designers steal. -- Pablo Picasso
Good artists copy; great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
None but blockheads copy each other. -- William Blake
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
He who can copy can do. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Learn from everyone, copy no one. -- Don Shula
Without theory we can only copy. -- W. Edwards Deming
To copy is to invite disaster. -- W. Edwards Deming
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. -- Natalie Wood
To copy faults is want of sense. -- Charles Churchill
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. -- Pablo Picasso
You were born original don't die a copy -- Ben Mikaelsen
My pleasure was to copy, not to create. -- Manuel Puig
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. -- Yogi Berra
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy -- W. Somerset Maugham
If you copy then it is not self-expression. -- Michael Schenker
I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything. -- Vinny Guadagnino
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. -- Ken Wilber
Thereâ??s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid. -- Atifete Jahjaga
Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility. -- J. C. Ryle
You can't copy style, you gotta create your own. -- Tatyana Ali
Readers know what the copy is going to say. -- John Caples
The copy price of the future is the copyright. -- Mathias Dopfner
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. -- Michelangelo
The bible is a cheap copy of the Qur'an . -- Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
I have a look that girls want to copy. -- Avril Lavigne
Everything in art is but a copy of nature. -- Seneca the Younger
Art does not copy nature - it suggests it. -- Ernst Gombrich
Have you seen a copy of Tax Tips for Billionaires? -- David Letterman
Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy -- Lita Ford
Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over. -- Charles Duke
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. -- Arthur Darvill
My goal is never to copy. Create a new style. -- Tamara de Lempicka
Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy. -- Greyson Chance
It is better to invert reality than to copy it. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. -- Richard Steele
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. -- Paul Gauguin
I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it. -- Gordon Ramsay
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. -- Marian Wright Edelman
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. -- Caroline Corr
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. -- Jean Rostand
Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy. -- Suzy Kassem
We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead. -- Cory Doctorow
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. -- Samuel Johnson
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. -- Pablo Picasso
I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.' -- Kim Shaw
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. -- Peg Bracken
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. -- Stephen King
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. -- Bruce Schneier
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. -- Theophile Gautier
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. -- David Bailey
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. -- Karl Kraus
Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa -- Richelle Mead
Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser! -- Woody Allen

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