Marilyn Butler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

  • A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  • We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  • The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

  • The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

  • I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

  • I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

  • What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

  • Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  • A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.