Ryan Tedder Quotes

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

No one ever became great by imitation.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.