Chuck Jones

Animator, cartoon director and screenwriter

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My mother said — and I didn’t realize how well it works — when I’d bring a drawing to her, she said, “I don’t look at the drawing. I looked at the child, and if the child was excited, I got excited.” And then we could discuss it. Because we were bringing something that meant something to me as a child. And so she would join in my lassitude, or my excitement, or my frustration. She wasn’t a psychologist, but she did understand this simple matter. Also, it accomplishes the only thing that has any meaning to a little child. The only thing an adult can give a child is time. That’s all, there isn’t anything else. That’s the only thing they need, really, is time. If you give them time, you’ll have to be understanding of them and give them time.

Academy of Achievement (achievement.org) source ↗

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Ralph Nader Lawyer and consumer advocate; author of Unsafe at Any Speed
But if it did well, I’d remember what my parents told me, which was the hardest thing is not attaining success, it’s being able to endure it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 16 February 1991 source ↗
Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
One person that is my role model is my father. ... He’s a man who taught me something very important. And that was — give back to society what you’ve taken out.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 12 February 1991 source ↗
David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
¿Es la tecnología, el machine learning y la inteligencia artificial? Sí, es verdad, pero al final la diferencia es que hacemos algo que mi mamá me decía cuando era chiquito: "Tratemos a los demás como nos gustaría que nos traten a nosotros".
Recorded Vicky Dávila, interview, Semana, 1 October 2022 source ↗
Tenley Albright Surgeon; Olympic figure-skating champion, 1956
And I said, “You know, it does sound silly, and it does sound as if I’m doing it just for my own fun.” And she said, “You have an obligation to do the best you can with whatever you’ve got. And if you like to do a sport, and you can do part of it well, that’s a way of expressing what God gave you.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 21 June 1991 source ↗

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Question What are you unwilling to optimise? Values & belief
I’m still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. And to this day, that’s been the astonishment of my life, and delight of my life, and the wonder of my life, and the puzzlement that anybody would be so stupid as to be willing to do that. I hear all these success stories of people, these captains of industry, these forgers of the world, and empire builders and so on. And they talk about all the money they’ve made and become presidents and all that, and I thought, jeez, but look at me. When I was offered a chance to be head of studios I wouldn’t take it. I like to work with the tools of my trade. The tools of my trade is a lot of paper and a pencil, and that’s all it is.
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