Edwin Catmull Quotes

Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.

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• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Empowering

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Video Games

• 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Air
  • Guilty

• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Me
  • Sky

• When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Knows
  • New

• If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Stand

• I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fight
  • Vacation
  • Much

• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • High
  • Respect

• It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Cool
  • Smart
  • Honor

• One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Government
  • Passion

• When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Done
  • Going
  • Before

• I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Women
  • Taken
  • Sexy

• Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Parents
  • Words

• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Job
  • Creation
  • Productivity

• Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Job
  • Risk
  • Prevent