Edwin Catmull Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
-
I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
-
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
-
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
-
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
-
I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
-
There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
-
According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
-
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
-
Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
-
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
-
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
-
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
-
I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
-
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
-
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
-
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
-
I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
-
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
-
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
-
The best leaders in any enterprise see problems coming and stack the deck to prevent negative “what ifs” from happening. They also have contingency plans to take advantage of positive openings which occur in fleeting windows of time.
-
Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently.
