Edwin Catmull Quotes
If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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When we rebound the ball, we're able to do that. We don't want to come down and play a half-court game all the time.
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
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The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities.
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.
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Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.
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The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.
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I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
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I'm probably one of the biggest Drake fans you could ever find.
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Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.
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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.
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If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
