Edwin Catmull Quotes

#1. If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Edwin Catmull

#2. If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

Charles R. Swindoll

#3. Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

Wayne Rooney

#4. Have a religion but don't let religion have you! Befriend God because you wanted to, not because they have said it to you.

Janina Lea Dela Pena

#5. I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

Edwin Catmull

#6. If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Edwin Catmull

#7. For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Edwin Catmull

#8. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

Edwin Catmull

#9. You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

Edwin Catmull

#10. They have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

Janet Evanovich

#11. If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

Edwin Catmull

#12. Kate Hudson's entire career exists because people who fall in love sometimes tell lies about where they work.

Caroline Kepnes

#13. I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

Edwin Catmull

#14. Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Edwin Catmull

#15. Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Edwin Catmull

#16. Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

Hill Harper

#17. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

Anne Fadiman

#18. We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.

Edwin Catmull

#19. The future is a direction, not a destination.

Edwin Catmull

#20. Success hides problems ... you don't need to address problems.

Edwin Catmull

#21. Each of us is like a wave in the ocean, a gust of wind, a lightning bolt - unique, yet at the same time part of a pattern of forces.

P.Z. Myers

#22. Because teenage girls don't pray to God, they pray to each other. They clasp their hands over a keyboard and then they let it all out, a (stupid) girl's heart tucked into another girl's heart.

Courtney Summers