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Walt Disney Quotes - Page 10

All Quotes Achievement Adventure Adversity Age Art Attitude Being Yourself Business Character Children Communication Critics Curiosity Design Determination Disneyland Effort Evil Fame Family Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Graduation Greatness Growing Up Hard Work Heart Home Humanity Imagination Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Joy Language Laughter Leadership Learning Life Lying Magic Memories Motivational Moving Forward Moving On Parenting Past Persistence Personality Positive Positive Thinking Quality Quitting Reality Running Study Success Teamwork Today Work Worry

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

Dream, Missing, Angle

"Walt's Profit Formula: Dream, Diversity, and Never Miss an Angle". Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1958.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Kings, Queens, Kings And Queens

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Character, Personality, Cartoon

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

Determination, Criticism, Trying

"Disneyland, 1955: Just Take the Santa Ana Freeway to the American Dream". American Art, 1991.

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

Halloween, Scared, Neighborhood

[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Brother, Business, Years

"A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

Being Yourself, Art, Book

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

Never Quit, Vulnerable, Young

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

People, Laughing, Secret

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

Jobs, Different, Routine

"Walt Disney: Conversations". Book by Kathy Merlock Jackson, 2006.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

Life, Zest, Bad Times

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

Thinking, People, Realization

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Thinking, Growth, Goes On

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Kids, Disney Animation, Adults

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

Character, Greatness, Animal

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Bad Day, Past, Looks

"Fictional character: Edna Mode". "The Incredibles", 2004.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Life, Greatness, Want

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

Sports, Fun, Should Have

"The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Heart, Stories, Corny

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Art, Mean, Entertainment

We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

Real, Heart, Emotional

I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

Mean, Dresses, Rehearsal

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.

Appreciation, Communication, Mean

"OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

Children, Believe, Talking

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Life, Leadership, Epcot

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