Edwin Catmull Quotes

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.