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Walt Disney Quotes - Page 8

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My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Business, Organization, Rewards

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

Nice, Doe, Faults

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?

Dream, Bad Day

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

Sight, Sound, World

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Dream, Reality, Ideas

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.

Lying, Simple, Dimensions

"The Rides of Passage". "Via" Magazine, July 2005.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Movie, Gambling, Entertainment

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.

Thinking, Knowing, Example

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.

Children, Book, Writing

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

Kansas, Vegetarian, Vegan

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.

Eye, Past, Color

Laughter is America's most important export.

Laughter, America, Patriotism

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

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

Horse, Heart, America

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Influence, Young, Objectives

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Stories, Fame, Fortune

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

Dream, Sleeping Beauty, Aurora

"Fictional character: Aurora". "Sleeping Beauty", 1959.

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.

Children, Growing Up, Real

"Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

Children, Parenting, Reality

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

Done, Ifs

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.

Years, People, Would Be

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.

Life, Land, Rivers

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

Communication, World, Limitless

People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.

Thinking, Government, People

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Children, Blessed, Magic Kingdom

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

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.

Life, Fake People, Over You

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