Jim Rohn Quotes

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

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

Everyone steals from something or someone.

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

I borrow bits from everyone.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

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

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

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.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

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