Kathryn Minshew Quotes

Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it's been a fascinating window into my kids' world. It's been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways - and so much cooler than we were.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.

Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office.

We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They're our first digital natives, and they're willing to learn quickly.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

As you get older and gain more experience, you're able to do multiple things. You don't necessarily have to focus so hard on your performance in order to have a good one.

Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.

In a small club you have to do everything: negotiate with the bus company, do all the contracts, all the press work, all the coaching work. It was really exhausting. There was very little time for other experiences and to see how other coaches work and how people work in different countries.

I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

I'm Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.

I want to destroy the old concept that a company is a place where one sacrifices time for the sake of money.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year and deejays every night and still do the same day job that I do, only with more responsibility. It drives me to find a way to juggle it.

One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.