Will Eisner Quotes
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.
Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.
