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To Some People, I Am Kind Of A Merlin Who Takes Lots Of Crazy Chances, But Rarely Makes Mistakes. I've Made Some Bad Ones, But Fortunately, The Successes Have Come Along Fast Enough To Cover Up The Mistakes. When You Go To Bat As Many Times As I Do, And Continually Improve Upon Your Mistakes, You're Bound To Get A Good Average.

-Walt Disney

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To Some People, I

Walt Disney

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To Some People, I Am Kind Of A Merlin Who Takes Lots Of Crazy Chances, But Rarely Makes Mistakes. I've Made Some Bad Ones, But Fortunately, The Successes Have Come Along Fast Enough To Cover Up The Mistakes. When You Go To Bat As Many Times As I Do, And Continually Improve Upon Your Mistakes, You're Bound To Get A Good Average.

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Any Dream Is Possible, If You Have Courage.

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Once A Man Has Tasted Freedom He Will Never Be Content To Be A Slave.

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I'm Doing This Because I Want To Do It Better.

In Bad Times And In Good I've Never Lost My Sense Of Zest For Life.

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I Function Better When Things Are Going Badly Than When They're As Smooth As Whipped Cream.

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Leadership Means That A Group, Large Or Small, Is Willing To Entrust Authority To A Person Who Has Shown Judgement, Wisdom, Personal Appeal, And Proven Competence.

The Past Can Hurt. But The Way I See It, You Can Either Run From It, Or Learn From It.

The Inclination Of My Life...has Been To Do Things & Make Things Which Will Give Pleasure To People In New And Amazing Ways.

You'll Be A Poorer Person All Your Life If You Don't Know Some Of The Great Stories And Great Poems.

Today, We Are Shapers Of The World Of Tomorrow. That Is Plain Truth. There Is No Way We Can Duck The Responsibility, And There Is No Reason Why We Should.

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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Always, As You Travel, Assimilate The Sounds And Sights Of The World.

It's Our America - Do Something To Preserve Its' Beauty Strength, And Natural Wealth

If Watching Is All You're Going To Do, Then You're Going To Watch Your Life Go By Without You.

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.

We Like To Have A Point Of View In Our Stories, Not An Obvious Moral, But A Worthwhile Theme. ... All We Are Trying To Do Is Give The Public Good Entertainment. That Is All They Want.

Just Make Sure You Never Do Less Than Your Best

Whether You Say You Can't Or You Can, You're Right.

Self Empowerment

It Seems To Me Shallow And Arrogant For Any Man In These Times To Claim He Is Completely Self-made, That He Owes All His Success To His Own Unaided Efforts. Many Hands And Hearts And Minds Generally Contribute To Anyone's Notable Achievements.

Perhaps Bach And Beethoven Are Strange Bedfellows For Mickey Mouse, But It's All Been A Lot Of Fun.

When I'm Dead I Don't Want A Funeral. I Want People To Remember Me Alive.

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The Way To Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing.

Biggest Problem? Well, I'd Say It's Been My Biggest Problem All My Life. Money. It Takes A Lot Of Money To Make These Dreams Come True. From The Very Start It Was A Problem. Getting The Money To Open Disneyland. About Seventeen Million It Took. And We Had Everything Mortgaged Including My Personal Insurance.

There Are Fashions In Reading, Even In Thinking. You Don't Have To Follow Them Unless You Want To. On The Other Hand, Watch Out. Don't Stick Too Closely To Your Favorite Subject. That Would Keep You From Adventuring Into Other Fields. It's Silly To Build A Wall Around Your Interests.

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.

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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.

We're Not Trying To Entertain The Critics ... I'll Take My Chances With The Public.

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The Important Thing Is The Family. If You Can Keep The Family Together - And That's The Backbone Of Our Whole Business, Catering To Families - That's What We Hope To Do.

Once A Man Has Tasted Freedom He Will Never Be Content To Be A Slave. That Is Why I Believe That This Frightfulness We See Everywhere Today Is Only Temporary. Tomorrow Will Be Better For As Long As America Keeps Alive The Ideals Of Freedom And A Better Life. All Men Will Want To Be Free And Share Our Way Of Life. There Must Be So Much That I Should Have Said, But Haven't. What I Will Say Now Is Just What Most Of Us Are Probably Thinking Every Day. I Thank God And America For The Right To Live And Raise My Family Under The Flag Of Tolerance, Democracy And Freedom.

I Think What I Want Disneyland To Be Most Of All Is A Happy Place...

I Never Look Back, Darling. It Distracts From The Now.

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.

Adults Are Only Kids Grown Up

Progress Is Impossible Without Change

If You Can Visualize It, If You Can Dream It, There's Some Way To Do It.

God Wisely Designed The Human Body So That We Can Neither Pat Our Own Backs Nor Kick Ourselves Too Easily. The More You Like Yourself, The Less You Are Like Anyone Else, Which Makes You Unique.

Happiness Is A State Of Mind. You Can Be Happy Or You Can Be Unhappy.

That's The Real Trouble With The World, Too Many People Grow Up.

People Still Think Of Me As A Cartoonist, But The Only Thing I Lift A Pen Or Pencil For These Days Is To Sign A Contract, A Check, Or An Autograph.

I Don't Think There's A Thing I Own That I Will Ever Get The Benefit Of Except Through Doing Things With It.

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.

Well I Come From A Land, From A Far Away Place, Where The Caravan Camels Roam. They Will Cut Of Your Ear If They Don't Like Your Face, It's Babaric, But Hey, It's Home.

My Business Is Making People, Especially Children, Happy. I Have Dedicated Much Of My Time To A Study Of The Problems Of Children.

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.

I Try To Build A Full Personality For Each Of Our Cartoon Characters - To Make Them Personalities.

Sometimes I Think Of Myself As A Little Bee. I Go From One Area Of The Studio To Another And Gather Pollen And Sort Of Stimulate Everybody. I Guess That’s The Job I Do.

The Worst Of Us Is Not Without Innocence, Although Buried Deeply It Might Be.

Mickey Mouse Is, To Me, A Symbol Of Independence. He Was A Means To An End.

When We Opened Disneyland, A Lot Of People Got The Impressions That It Was A Get-rich-quick Thing, But They Didn't Realize That Behind Disneyland Was This Great Organization That I Built Here At The Studio, And They All Got Into It And We Were Doing It Because We Loved To Do It.

Both My Study Of Scripture And My Career In Entertaining Children Have Taught Me To Cherish Them.

I Have Long Felt That The Way To Keep Children Out Of Trouble Is To Keep Them Interested In Things.

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes, When You're Fast Asleep.

I Always Like To Look On The Optimistic Side Of Life.

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.

To Me, Today, At Age Sixty-one, All Prayer, By The Humble Or Highly Placed, Has One Thing In Common: Supplication For Strength And Inspiration To Carry On The Best Human Impulses Which Should Bind Us Together For A Better World.

The Main Quality Of Leadership..........is Courage ! If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It!

Curiosity Keeps Leading Us Down New Paths.

A Good Story Can Take You On A Fantastic Journey.

Dream, Diversify-and Never Miss An Angle.

Tomorrow Can Be A Wonderful Age.

Fantasy And Reality Often Overlap.

Everyone Has To Contribute, Or They Become Laborers.

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.

I Don't Have Depressed Moods. I'm Happy, Just Very, Very Happy.

Frying Pans! Who Knew, Right?

The Difference In Winning & Losing Is Most Often, Not Quitting.

Disneyland Is A Work Of Love. We Didn't Go Into Disneyland Just With The Idea Of Making Money.

A Person Should Set His Goals As Early As He Can And Devote All His Energy And Talent To Getting There.

Disneyland Is Like Alice Stepping Through The Looking Glass; To Step Through The Portals Of Disneyland Will Be Like Entering Another World.

Around Here, However, We Don't Look Backwards For Very Long.

Movies Can And Do Have Tremendous Influence In Shaping Young Lives.

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.

If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It.

Animation Is Different From Other Parts. Its Language Is The Language Of Caricature.

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Being A Celebrity Doesn't Even Seem To Keep The Fleas Off Our Dogs — And If Being A Celebrity Won't Give Me An Advantage Over A Couple Of Fleas, Then I Guess There Can't Be Much In Being A Celebrity After All.

The American Child Is A Highly Intelligent Human Being - Characteristically Sensitive, Humorous, Open-minded, Eager To Learn, And Has A Strong Sense Of Excitement, Energy, And Healthy Curiosity About The World In Which He Lives. Lucky Indeed Is The Grown-up Who Manages To Carry These Same Characteristics Into Adult Life. It Usually Makes For A Happy And Successful Individual.

Many Of The Things That Seem Impossible Now Will Become Realities Tomorrow.

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.

Recession Doesn't Deserve The Right To Exist. There Are Just Too Many Things To Be Done In Science And Engineering To Be Bogged Down By Temporary Economic Dislocations.

Never Get Bored Or Cynical. Yesterday Is A Thing Of The Past.

Disneyland Is Dedicated To The Ideals, The Dreams, And The Hard Facts That Have Created America...

The Most Important Thing Is Family.

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