Quotes from Walt Disney


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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.


You reach a point where you don't work for money.


I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.


Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.


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


The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.


If you can dream it, you can do it.


We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.


We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.


You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.


We allow no geniuses around our Studio.


I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.


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


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.


There's nothing funnier than the human animal.


Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.


It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.


I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.


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


Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.