Ed Catmull Quotes
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
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I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.
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I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.
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A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.
