Edwin Catmull Quotes

The future is not a destination - it is a direction.

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• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • New

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • House
  • First
  • Club

• The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Daily
  • Page
  • Newspaper

• There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Kids
  • Funny
  • Just

• My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Work
  • Father
  • Truck

• France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Partner
  • France
  • Skill

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Hope

• Vivit post proelia Magnussed fortuna perit.

  

  Lucan

• Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

  

  Charles Koch

• There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Up
  • Strong

• I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

  

  David Neeleman

• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

  

  Katherine Mansfield

• We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Education
  • Diversity
  • Hierarchy

• I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Business
  • High
  • Future

• There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Learn
  • Customers
  • Competitors

• The future is not a destination - it is a direction.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Future
  • Direction
  • Destination