Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.
Interpretation
Understanding the imaginative world of children can lead to great success in creative fields.
George Lucas emphasizes the importance of connecting with the imaginative and whimsical perspective of children, particularly through the lens of an 11-year-old girl, as a key to success in the entertainment industry. By tapping into this youthful sense of fantasy and creativity, one can create content that resonates with audiences, ultimately leading to financial success in the business.
In practice
This quote could inspire a speech at a children's entertainment conference.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.
Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Rules that may be easy for Wall Street are a death sentence for startups. They are easy to break accidentally and the penalty for noncompliance is severe.
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