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The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employees' hearts. — Ed Catmull

Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat. — Ed Catmull

Success hides problems ... you don't need to address problems. — Edwin Catmull

We are striving to tell you something impactful and true. When attempting to make good on that promise, no detail is too small. — Ed Catmull

discovery and defense of the new. — Ed Catmull

constructive criticism is "good notes." A good note says what is wrong, what is missing, what isn't clear, what makes no sense. — Ed Catmull

As more people are added to any group, there is an inexorable drift toward inflexibility. — Ed Catmull

When faced with a challenge, get smarter. — Ed Catmull

We have friends in every woods we walk through, though we walk through them not knowing. — Katherine Catmull

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, bust most days we walk as if we do.
(from uncorrected galley) — Katherine Catmull

A map is a song. It's different when different people sing it ... You will make this your own song, sing it your own way. — Katherine Catmull

the future is unmade, and we must create it. — Ed Catmull

The future is a direction, not a destination. — Edwin Catmull

When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what's bugging them, for fear of being labeled complainers. — Ed Catmull

Her voice was warm and husky as a clarinet, but not so sad as a clarinet: friendlier. When she laughed, it was like a clarinet blowing bubbles. — Katherine Catmull

good managers - don't dictate from on high. They reach out, they listen, they wrangle, coax, and cajole. — Ed Catmull

fail early and fail fast" and "be wrong as fast as you can. — Ed Catmull

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

Keep on going, even when things look bleak. — Ed Catmull

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip. — Ed Catmull

Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? That approach never encourages a creative response. — Ed Catmull

Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft. — Ed Catmull

Hindsight is not 20-20. Not even close. Our view of the past, in fact, is hardly clearer than our view of the future. — Ed Catmull

Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part. — Ed Catmull

The trick is to shift the emphasis in any meeting away from the source of an idea and onto the idea itself. — Ed Catmull

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? — Edwin Catmull

To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth. Left — Ed Catmull

Andrew Stanton spoke next. Andrew is fond of saying that people need to be wrong as fast as they can. — Ed Catmull

Failure isn't a necessary evil. In fact, it isn't evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new. — Ed Catmull

I'm not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. — Ed Catmull

Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up - it means you trust them even when they do screw up. — Ed Catmull

Hindsight is 20-20. — Ed Catmull

We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where. — Ed Catmull

This is not a call for working faster or doing more overtime or making do with fewer people," he said in one town hall forum. — Ed Catmull

We'll just have to get smarter. — Ed Catmull

I was a computer guy with an expensive dream. — Ed Catmull

On water and light she runs. — Katherine Catmull

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

You suffer through it as you struggle to solve it, but by the end you've developed a sort of fondness for it, and you miss it when it is gone. — Ed Catmull

You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable. — Katherine Catmull

the human tendency to treat big events as fundamentally different from smaller ones. — Ed Catmull

Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening. — Ed Catmull

I believe that no creative company should ever stop evolving, and this would be our latest attempt to avoid stagnation. — Ed Catmull

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you. — Katherine Catmull

An adage worth repeating is also halfway to being irrelevant. You end up with something that is easy to say but not connected to behavior. — Ed Catmull

On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree. — Katherine Catmull

If you think, you stink. — Ed Catmull

Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning. — Ed Catmull

Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus. — Ed Catmull

But when you find your soul, you have to go. When you find your true shape, when the wind lifts you up, when you remember who you are, you have to go. — Katherine Catmull

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

Merely repeating ideas means nothing. You must act - and think - accordingly. — Ed Catmull

What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don't empower them to fix what's broken? — Ed Catmull

Not the confidence that we know exactly what to do at all times but the confidence that, together, we will figure it out. — Ed Catmull

This sounds simple enough - honor the viewpoints of others! - — Ed Catmull

Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea. — Ed Catmull

Most of us walk around thinking that our view is best - probably because it is the only one we really know. — Ed Catmull

Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently. — Ed Catmull

Fear of change - innate, stubborn, and resistant to reason - is a powerful force. — Ed Catmull

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention. — Edwin Catmull

Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow. — Ed Catmull

failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration. — Ed Catmull

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it. — Edwin Catmull

You'll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar. — Ed Catmull

You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility. — Ed Catmull

good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they're in. — Ed Catmull

Creative people must accept that challenges never cease, failure can't be avoided, and "vision" is often an illusion. — Ed Catmull

there is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking. And — Ed Catmull

That's the place you're looking for: when the movie starts to tell you what it wants to be. — Ed Catmull

one of my core management beliefs: If you don't try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. — Ed Catmull

We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do — Katherine Catmull

There is no safety, and so we must touch and be touched, and we must fall and fly. — Katherine Catmull

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

We had done the impossible. We had done the thing that everyone told us we couldn't do. And we had done it spectacularly well. — Ed Catmull

Our job is to protect the new. — Ed Catmull

Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. — Ed Catmull

When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless. — Ed Catmull

Fear can be created quickly; trust can't. — Ed Catmull

Fear makes people reach for certainty and stability, neither of which guarantee the safety they imply. — Ed Catmull

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way. — Katherine Catmull

As I've said, ARPA had been created in response to Sputnik, and one of its key organizing principles was that collaboration could lead to excellence. — Ed Catmull