Edwin Catmull Quotes

What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.

Edwin Catmull

• Believe
• Job
• Train
• Track
• Interests
• Drive

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• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • You
  • Chance

• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• I play well with everybody.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Play
  • Well
  • Everybody

• My drumming is always an experiment.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Always
  • Experiment
  • Drumming

• I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Childhood
  • Awareness
  • Obsessive

• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Age
  • Father
  • Savage

• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Community

• There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

  

  Jane Austen

• Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Baseball

• There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Long
  • Band

• In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Life
  • City
  • River

• I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Long
  • Family

• It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Kids
  • Song

• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Hiking

• Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Bad

• What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Train