Edwin Catmull Quotes
We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
Quotes to Explore
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Crazy world it was where a woman showed more worry about him poking his eye out with a sword than she did about him taking fifty-yard leaps from one building to another.
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.
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We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
