Writer
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Goethe
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
Yohi Yamamoto (fashion designer)
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world ... plant a plan, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.
Edward Tufte
We were kids without fathers ... so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
Jay-Z
I have stolen all of these moves from all these great players. I just try to do them proud, the guys who came before, because I learned so much from them. It's all in the name of the game. It's a lot bigger than me.
Kobe Bryant
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
Jessica Hische
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want--that just kills creativity.
Jack White (singer and songwriter)
You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.
Steve Jobs
In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!
Lynda Barry (cartoonist)
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
Jim Jarmusche (film director)
Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.
RZA
You start out as a phony and become real.
Glenn O'Brien
We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. YOu will take waht we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice. And that's how you begin. And then one day someone willl steal from you.
Francis Ford Coppola (film maker)
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
Jonah Lehrer