#steal

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ↗

— Josh Billings

#achieve #any #good #good judgment #honestly

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#copy #genius #get #good #just

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#immature #mature #poets #steal

Never lie, never cheat, never steal. ↗

— John Wooden

#lie #never #steal

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#christmas #concerted #concerted effort #effort #steal

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#brains #drunk #fan #get #hard

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#band #bands #every #music #music scene

If you can deny your talents, if you can conceal them from others or, even better, persuade yourself that they weren’t even given to you, you’re off the hook. And being off the hook is a key element of the industrialized school’s promise. It lets parents off the hook, certainly, since the institution takes over the teaching. It lets teachers off the hook, since the curriculum is preordained and the results are tested. And it lets students off the hook, because the road is clearly marked and the map is handed to everyone. If you stay on the path, do your college applications through the guidance office and your job hunting at the placement office, the future is not your fault. That’s the refrain we hear often from frustrated job seekers, frustrated workers with stuck careers, and frustrated students in too much debt. 'I did what they told me to do and now I’m stuck and it’s not my fault.' What they’ve exchanged for that deniability is their dreams, their chance for greatness. To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#copying #current #current law #enables #grow