Copy Quotes - page 3

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)
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow! View quote
Rex Stout
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return. View quote
Charles Lamb
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. View quote
Paul Gauguin
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
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. View quote
Richard Dawkins
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. (Matt Taibbi)
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on. View quote
Will Rogers
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything. View quote
Edgar Degas
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. View quote
Arsène Wenger
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
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. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Many things may be copied by the latter; the example as such also acts upon them; and many achievements directly serve other branches too [...]. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as occurs when air is sucked in strongly with the back of the hand held in front of the mouth. It is therefore incorrect to say that I have copied the cyclones and typhoons of the tropics. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! View quote
Viktor Schauberger
...there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. (Randall Jarrell)
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. View quote
John Clare
We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable. View quote
Jerome
Including a mention of your impressive record.... The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki