Edwin Catmull Quotes

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Hair
  • Product
  • Prevent

• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Way
  • Show
  • Standard

• I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Illness
  • Cure
  • Prevent

• When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Changes

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Perfect

• I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Property
  • Don't Believe
  • Wealthy

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Young

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

  

  Aristotle
  • Word
  • Error
  • Wicked Man

• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowing
  • Error
  • Universal

• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Person
  • Christianity

• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Error
  • Poets
  • Artisans

• No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Law
  • Error
  • Persist

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Possession

• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Task

• A life without music is an error.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Music
  • Error

• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Social
  • Stones

• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Common

• Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Man
  • Woman

• Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Nature
  • Poets
  • Grand

• When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Build
  • Fantasy
  • Creative Process

• If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Error
  • Prevent
  • Screws