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Susan Utell, writer and film editor

WRITER AND FILM EDITOR

Susan Utell has worked in all aspects of the broadcast industry—including editorial experience cutting news and programming for San Francisco network affiliates KPIX, KQED and KGO.

Her advertising agency editorial experience began with a four-year employment at the Bay Area’s first full-fledged post-production facility, One Pass Film & Video. There, Susan worked with advertising agencies; JWT NYC/Chicago; McCann-Erickson; Foot, Cone & Belding; Riney & Associates; Goodby, Silverstein and Partners; Y & R and Goldberg, Moser, O’Neill. She left One Pass in 1984 to begin a successful decades-long freelance career.

Susan’s editorial experience includes both long and short formats. She has worked on Emmy award winning documentaries for Reader’s Digest, programs for PBS, The Disney Channel, The Travel Channel, The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. Recently, she co-edited the documentary “WHY WE SING!” — a film about diversity and the San Francisco Gay Men Chorus narrated by Mayor Gavin Newsom, aired for PBS.

Susan has completed a four film DVD package of financial tips for Robbins Research International, with financial luminaries Harry Dent and John Templeton, hosted by thought leader Tony Robbins.

Susan was producer, director and editor of LIGHTFORMS, a short film, shown in the Mill Valley Film Festival. She has edited archival dance performances for the Merce Cunningham Foundation, which has been placed in the Museum of Modern Art.

Susan has experience in both Avid and Final Cut Pro technologies. She has accomplished post-supervisory skills with a strong eye for design and writing. And she is friendly.

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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– Avenida Margarita

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe