The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.
Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying
The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.
I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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.
Laughter is America's most important export.
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
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.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
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.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.
I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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.
Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
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.
I never intended to make art.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
The wonders of nature are endless.
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.
I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
