Top 100 Walt Disney Quotes
#1. Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
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#2. When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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#3. I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
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#4. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
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#5. Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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#6. All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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#7. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
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#8. Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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#9. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.
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#10. I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
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#12. If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
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#13. While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
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#14. The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
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#15. I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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#16. Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
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#17. Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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#18. Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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#19. All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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#20. Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.
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#21. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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#22. Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.
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#23. I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
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#24. It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
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#25. It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.
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#27. My business is making people, especially children, happy.
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#28. In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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#29. Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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#30. To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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#32. I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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#33. I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
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#34. In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action ... the feeling of those characters.
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#35. We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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#36. You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
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#37. IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL
WEALTH
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#38. A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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#39. I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
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#40. The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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#41. Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
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#42. At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks ... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.
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#43. In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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#44. It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing ... and adding to.
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#45. The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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#46. Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
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#47. Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
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#48. It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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#49. It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.
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#50. I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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#52. I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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#53. I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
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#54. The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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#55. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
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#56. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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#57. There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart ... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.
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#58. We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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#59. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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#60. Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.
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#61. Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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#62. I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.
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#63. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
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#64. Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you
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#65. The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
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#66. I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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#67. The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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#68. You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
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#69. I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
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#70. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
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#71. I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.
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#72. One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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#73. I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
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#74. My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
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#75. Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination
a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
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#76. There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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#77. I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
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#78. People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
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#79. Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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#81. Any dream is possible, if you have courage.
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#82. Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
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#83. The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
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#84. Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
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#86. If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
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#87. I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
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#88. The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
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#89. Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra ... or a painter's brush and canvas.
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#90. Disneyland is a work of love ... Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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#91. When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.
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#92. I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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#93. I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
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#94. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
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#95. Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
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#96. To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.
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#97. My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
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#98. The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
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#99. You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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#100. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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