HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREATEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED!!!!!!!!(and my personal hero)
In honor here are some of my favorite Walt Quotes.
1.She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him. - Walt Disney, speaking of Cinderella in 1949.
2."The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
3."When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."
4."Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."
5."Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either."( this is one of my personal favs, I think he had DCer's in mind!)
6."You reach a point where you don't work for money." (Someone should remind Eisner of this one!)
7."The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him."(Amen!!!! That's sums up the magic that will live on forever!)
8."To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."
9."I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world." ( Is there a world outside of Disney?
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10. "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
11. "Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time."
12.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
13.I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
14.Laughter is America's most important export.
15.Or 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.
16.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.
17.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. (HA Walt got the last laugh, Shows what some people think they know.)
18.Your dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.