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Will Eisner Quotes


Will Eisner was an american comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. I want to celebrate his birthday in our own way, sharing Will Eisner Quotes.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

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.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

I’ve spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before you do it. Those of us who know something about the art of painting know that working on a canvas, very often a lot of serendipitous things happen that work to the advantage of the painter ultimately.

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

You can’t talk about heartbreak to a kid.

Famous Humor Quotes

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

“There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?” – Dick Cavett

“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” – Dame Edna Everage

“That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.” – A. Whitney Brown

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” – Christopher Morely

“Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.” – Salma Hayek

“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” – E.B. White

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” – Frank Howard Clark

Famous Quotes

“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzche

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” – Frank Wilczek

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln

Famous Love Quotes

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

“Love is friendship, set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor

“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” – Amy Bloom

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” – Lord Byron

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou

Famous Children Quotes

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.” – Frank A. Clark

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher

“We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Children are our most valuable resource.” – Herbert Hoover

“Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.” – Martin Mull

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” – Phyllis Diller

Famous Change Quotes

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The only thing constant in life is change.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley

Famous Leadership Quotes

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. – General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. – Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Patton

Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverb

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. –Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. – Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches. – Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. – Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. – Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. – James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. – Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. – Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there. – H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. – Ovid

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. – Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce do not command. – Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. – Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) – Latin Proverb

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. – Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. – Polybius