Edwin Catmull Quotes
Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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I am a mother first, then a CEO and then a wife.
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I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
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I never thought for one second I'd be able to play with a real band. When I was in high school, I went through a lot of bad treatment and was called a lot of names by boys because I wanted to play. Sly was different.
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Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
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My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.
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If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.
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I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
