Edwin Catmull Quotes

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

If we remain hostage to our past, then we will go nowhere.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.