Walt Disney was a fantastic man and a pioneer in his field. He believed in his work, he believed in magic and he believed in so much more. His belief has given generations of Americans magical characters and places to love and to cherish. So this morning, I thought I’d start our week off right with a little inspiration from the creator of Mickey Mouse and much, much more. Enjoy!
Walt Disney
- A man should never neglect his family for business.
- Adults are interested if you don’t play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don’t believe in talking down to children. I don’t believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
- All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
- Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
- Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
- Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
- Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
- Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
- Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
- Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
- I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
- I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
- I believe in being an innovator.
- I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
- I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
- I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
- 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.
- I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
- I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
- I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Have a great Monday!