Edwin Catmull Quotes
If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
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The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
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Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
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I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
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I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
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There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.
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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
