Sam Walton Quotes

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I borrow bits from everyone.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

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

I try to model my game from just a lot of people. If I like something from someone's game, I'll try to take it and just add it to mine.

All art is theft.

I never really modeled my game after anybody.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

You can't just copy someone. There are so many different styles that you can just kind of pick and choose whatever it is you'd like to do.

I watch everybody and tried to take bits and pieces from everybody.

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.