dwlt’s most recent Quotables

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.

The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the journey is the reward. If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

It's very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which you're doing it, and that you utilise what is specific about that medium to do the work. And if you can't think about why it should be done this way, then it doesn't need to be done.

It takes a lot of work (and rework, and rework and rework) to get it right.

Agencies, departments, and organizations don't do things - people do things. People's names should be on things to foster both accountability and pride.

If you want to be a filmmaker the best thing you can bring to the world is your own story. There’s something that’s very personal to you and that you have your own singular connection to, that if it’s really important to you, there are people all over the planet that will relate to it. The mistakes happen when you try to figure out what everyone likes.

[T]here is simply no point for me - or anyone on my staff - to work hard every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience.

He is John Lasseter because of a high standard of art, perception and fun that everyone in every language can relate to and enjoy. He surrounds himself with people who share the values and work ethic necessary to maintain that standard — now recognized worldwide as simply Pixar.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Art challenges technology but technology inspires the art. Often you’ll see a film where it’s been caught up in the technology and it doesn’t captivate. What I learnt from those great Disney animators was that it’s what you do with the technology that matters.

We said: “Let’s write something’s that specific to our own experience.”

Be short. Be bold. Get it done.

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

At its heart, making toys is about using existing technology skilfully to deliver a surprising experience. It's not a matter of whether or not the tech is cutting edge, but whether or not people think it's fun.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.