The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.
Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
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.
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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.
Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.
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.
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.
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i. e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.