Copying Others Quotes

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When you want to be somebody else, remember you are always a step behind that person.
Instead try being yourself, you might be a step ahead.”
― Mahendar Singh Jakhar

“Those who think little, tend to be those who think exactly alike.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Why can't we just look like ourselves? Why can't we create a personal style and not adopt one sanctioned by some magazine or TV show?”
― Jim Brickman, Simple Things

“cultural cringe which prevents other people from challenging them. the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci used the term ‘cultural hegemony’ to describe the way in which ideas and concepts which benefit a dominant class are universalised. they become norms, adopted whole and unexamined, which shape our thinking”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

“The more influential the original, the more copies it has.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“they are notoriously difficult to understand, which is why they are respected more than they are actually studied”
― David R. Loy, Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution