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I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in my head. I learned that the voice isn't me, and I don't need to keep rethinking events of the past nor overthink plans for the future. This skill has helped me both to focus and to pause before responding to unexpected events.
- Edwin Catmull
#Focus
#Future
#Great
#Learning
#Simple
For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history.
- Edwin Catmull
#History
#Me
#Moment
#Story
#Work
Beware of being blinded by your own success.
- Edwin Catmull
#Being
#Beware
#Own
#Success
#Your
Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.
- Edwin Catmull
#Communicate
#Meet
#Mingle
#People
Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.
- Edwin Catmull
#Fall
#Feel
#Ideas
#Start
#Way
Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
- Edwin Catmull
#Communication
#Happen
#Order
#Out
#Time
Every new idea in any field needs protection.
- Edwin Catmull
#Every
#Field
#Needs
#New
#Protection
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
#Doing
#Done
#Never
#Ups And Downs
#Way
What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.
- Edwin Catmull
#Businesses
#Learned
#Pixar
#Running
I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.
- Edwin Catmull
#Deep
#Failure
#Find
#Student
#Why
Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.
- Edwin Catmull
#America
#Bad
#High
#Society
#Thinking
I exercise in the gym about three times a week. I vary the workout every time, but I'll always do some type of circuit work with weights. It gets my heart rate up without putting too much stress on my knees, which for some reason seem to be older than the rest of my body.
- Edwin Catmull
#Exercise
#Heart
#Stress
#Time
#Work
People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.
- Edwin Catmull
#Failure
#Know
#Mistakes
#People
#Say
One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.
- Edwin Catmull
#Delivery
#Excellence
#Push
#Talk
#Us
The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
- Edwin Catmull
#Actually
#Avoid
#Desire
#Things
#Up
The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.
- Edwin Catmull
#Better
#Comfortable
#Good
#Skill
#Will
The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.
- Edwin Catmull
#Money
#Only
#Studio
#Will
#Yourself
I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.
- Edwin Catmull
#Await
#Day
#Eagerly
#Replacement
The Braintrust developed organically out of the rare working relationship among the five men who led and edited the production of 'Toy Story' - John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, and Joe Ranft.
- Edwin Catmull
#Men
#Rare
#Relationship
#Story
#Who
Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.
- Edwin Catmull
#Character
#Creativity
#Power
#Soul
#True
I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.
- Edwin Catmull
#Creativity
#New
#Problems
#Something
Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.
- Edwin Catmull
#Believe
#Company
#Ideas
#Me
#More
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.
- Edwin Catmull
#Better
#Culture
#Free
#Ideas
#Knowledge
It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.
- Edwin Catmull
#Job
#Make
#Risks
#Safe
#Take
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
#Business
#Respect
#Technology
Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
- Edwin Catmull
#Candor
#Dysfunctional
#Key
#Lack
#Leads
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