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.

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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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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.
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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.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I play well with everybody.
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My drumming is always an experiment.
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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.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.
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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
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There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
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Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire Our only greatness is that we aspire.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.
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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.