Louise Wilson Quotes

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I've been interested in art and fashion for as long as I can remember because they are so visual. I am fascinated by the idea of visual creation from the ground up, which is a challenge in ballet when the audience has seen every show of yours, every other principal that you've shared a role with, and every different production.

Pay attention to them kids, don't let your feelings be hurt because they taking your place. They supposed to. But if you wanna stay around with them, you ain't got to copy 'em. Just get the ones that's real young, too young to even be copying yet, because you know they gonna be the next thing.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.