Ed Catmull Quotes

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

Ed Catmull

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• I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • School
  • High
  • Goal

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Age
  • Nothing

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Worry
  • End

• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Live
  • New
  • Year

• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Today
  • Year

• There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Actress
  • Believes
  • Awful

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Speak
  • Bed

• As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Productive

• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Working
  • Possibilities

• One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Free

• I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• P. 25.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

  

  Chrysippus
  • World
  • Good
  • Nature

• I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Remember

• You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

  

  Kenneth Cranham
  • Time
  • Night

• We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

  

  Ed Catmull