Copiers Quotes

• Copiers do not collaborate.

  Antonio Gaudi

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• A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Originality, Produce, Mere

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

  Andrew Young

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Died

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• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

  William James

  Past, Self, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

  Dave Barry

  God, Years, Stupidity

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• The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.278

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• A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Heart, Produce, Raises

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.30

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• How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Littles, Invention

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.445

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• The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Book, Reading

  "One-Way Street".

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

  Andrew Young

  Society, Secrecy, Diplomacy

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• When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.

  John J. Geddes

  Perfect, Soul, Tissues

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• Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Photographer, Mere

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• Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

  Josh Turner

  Sales Person, Return, Cold

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• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Indulge In

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.283

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• I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

  Philippe Starck

  Waiting, Brain, Copying

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