Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.
Narrator: With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
each copy of a book has its own unique personality. Reading a book from the library is not the same as reading another copy of the same book from the same library, which is again completely different from reading your own copy of the book.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy...
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
There should be no crying in copyediting.
Why be a copy, when you're a master copy mankind is looking for?
Why be a copy, when you're the master copy mankind is looking for?
Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies we have for these date from 1,300, 900, and 700 years after the original writing, respect...
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.
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.
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.
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect direct...
