Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet.… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up. — Wally Wood Copy Share Image
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies Copy Share Image
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! — Jay Baer Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the… — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image