Edwin Catmull Quotes
Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is more than one thing.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I get bored easily.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
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Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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A new car is not going to change your life.
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Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
