Edwin Catmull Quotes

I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.

Edwin Catmull

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• To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Game
  • Growth

• As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growth
  • Own

• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
  • Failure
  • Teacher
  • Said

• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Opportunity
  • Evil
  • Only

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Money
  • Failure
  • Bank

• What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Great
  • Vision

• When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • City

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Attention

• This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. blank at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos faith need not be kept with heretics.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Paris

• We have never asked for anything. We need money. Cash.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Asked

• In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone makes existence tolerable.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Alone
  • Present

• I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Opportunity
  • Growth
  • Failure