102 Quotes by Edwin Catmull

The future is a direction, not a destination.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.