Edwin Catmull Quotes

We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.

Edwin Catmull

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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.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• 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.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• 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?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Illiterate

• I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Read

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• 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.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• 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.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Wine

• You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Believe
  • Read

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Look
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• I don't read a lot of books.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Books
  • Read
  • Lot

• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Meaning
  • Storytelling

• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Earth
  • Creatures
  • Spirits

• It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

  

  Amy Walter
  • Party
  • Distance
  • Ways

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Preacher

• We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.

  

  Edwin Catmull
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