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Quotes About Crediting

It is never difficult to credit strangers with the qualities and knowledge that oneself craves for, and no doubt Henriot's active fancy went busily to work.
~ Algernon Blackwood
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
I have yet to find, anyway, that those who urge the broad, philosophical view with respect to the work of others are quite so broad or philosophical when it comes to the correct attribution of their own productions.
~ Anne Sayre
Show an online or offline place where one says and others do not take away the same to show as their own.
~ Anuj Somany
Since the publication of the hardcover edition of this book in April 1994, a number of questions have been raised about the reality of the alien abduction phenomenon and the evidential basis for crediting the experiencers' accounts of what has happened to them.
~ John E. Mack
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
~ Seamus Heaney
There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.
~ Amaal Mallik
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
~ Pliny the Elder
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
~ Seamus Heaney
Someone once said that if you steal from one writer, it's called plagiarism, but if you steal from several, it's called research. So steal from everybody, but steal only a sentence or a phrase at a time. If you use much more than that, you must get permission and then give credit.
~ Gary Provost
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
~ Douglas MacArthur
it was incredible that this thing should be happening to him. It was what he had read of and had found some difficulty in crediting. It was what they were supposed to do to Jews in concentration camps. It could not be true.
~ Nevil Shute
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
~ Noel Gallagher