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We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.
~ Edwin Catmull
Change
Evolve
Initiate
Order
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We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.
~ Edwin Catmull
Attitude
Backgrounds
Business
Business Leaders
Car
Computers
Core
Even
Farm
Including
Industries
Issues
Leaders
Leads
Lot
Managers
Many
Need
Out
Respect
Technical
Technology
Them
Think
Who
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We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.
~ Edwin Catmull
Always
Lot
More
Need
Remember
Than
Think
Wrong
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We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody on the outside.
~ Edwin Catmull
Because
Even
Fund
Inside
Outside
Project
Proven
Rather
Skeptical
Somebody
Than
Wrong
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We've always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we'd never done - 'Toy Story' - and the low we felt right after when we realized we'd messed a bunch of things up along the way.
~ Edwin Catmull
After
Along
Always
Bunch
Doing
Done
Downs
Felt
Had
High
Low
Messed
Never
Pixar
Realized
Right
Something
Starting
Story
Things
Toy
Up
Ups
Ups And Downs
Way
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What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.
~ Edwin Catmull
About
Adopted
Began
Bringing
Came
Color
Days
Did
Died
Disney
Early
Early Days
Films
Happened
He
Just
Making
New
New Technologies
Out
People
Sound
Stopped
Technologies
Then
Think
Used
Walt
Walt Disney
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What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.
~ Edwin Catmull
Businesses
Learned
Pixar
Running
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When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.
~ Edwin Catmull
About
Almost
Companies
Conclusions
Got
How
Immediately
Jump
Successful
Why
Wrong
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When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.
~ Edwin Catmull
Angst
Film
Get
I See
Order
Pain
Remember
See
Some
Time
Work
Working
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When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough.
~ Edwin Catmull
1960s
Animator
Art
By The Time
Classes
College
Draw
Early
Enough
Even
High
High School
Realized
School
Time
Took
Wanted
Well
Well Enough
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When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.
~ Edwin Catmull
Had
Much
Off
People
Spending
Taking
Television
Time
Too
Too Much
Too Much Time
Watching
Watching Television
Were
Worried
You
Young
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When it comes to producing breakthroughs, both technological and artistic, Pixar's track record is unique. In the early 1990s, we were known as the leading technological pioneer in the field of computer animation.
~ Edwin Catmull
1990s
Animation
Artistic
Both
Breakthroughs
Computer
Early
Early 1990s
Field
Known
Leading
Pioneer
Pixar
Producing
Record
Technological
Track
Track Record
Unique
Were
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When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.
~ Edwin Catmull
Because
Director
Everyone
Feel
Humiliated
Knows
Makes
Off
Person
Position
Project
Put
Responsible
Take
Them
You
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While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of heart in our main character is often caused by subtle underlying issues elsewhere in the story.
~ Edwin Catmull
Assess
Caused
Change
Character
Difficult
Easy
Elsewhere
Extraordinarily
Fairly
Film
Heart
Identify
Issues
Main
Main Character
Often
Our
Plot
Problems
Sources
Story
Subtle
Those
Twist
Underlying
While
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With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea is more likely to have financial success. But if you go down that path too far, you become creatively bankrupt because you're just trying to repeat yourself.
~ Edwin Catmull
Bankrupt
Because
Become
Car
Certain
Commercial
Commercial Success
Creatively
Down
Far
Financial
Go
Idea
Ideas
Just
Know
Likely
More
Path
Predict
Repeat
Story
Success
Too
Toy
Trying
You
Yourself
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With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.
~ Edwin Catmull
Each
Each Time
Emotions
Every
Films
Our
Same
Time
Touch
Try
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
~ E. O. Wilson
Born
Disturbed
Environments
Nurtured
Religions
Three
Were
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
~ E. O. Wilson
America
Burden
Cost
Enormous
Horrendous
Living
Particular
Standard
Wonderful
World
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
~ E. O. Wilson
About
Ant
Being
Brain
Even
Fast
Human
Individual
Kind
Laboratory
Learn
Maze
Rat
Simple
Size
Though
Use
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
~ E. O. Wilson
Almost
Almost All
Ants
Dominant
Great
Had
Impact
Insects
Land
More
Over
Surface
Than
World
Years
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