Andrew Stanton Quotes

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Always listen for what you can leave out.