A major threshold is passed ...

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
 Andrew Stanton

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
 Andrew Stanton
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
 Andrew Stanton
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
 Andrew Stanton
Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
 Andrew Stanton
I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?
 Andrew Stanton