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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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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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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I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
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Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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When I am painting, driven by lively tensions, I want to express what’s going on in me. When that tension has ceased, when the life in me became visible, then something happened which had to happen. Over and over again you experience a work which is created in this way. What happened? It is hard to say, because it was not my mind that led but the inner desire that revealed its inner life.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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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.
