Frasi di Walt Disney

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22 citazioni penetranti e ispiranti sulla fantasia, l'umorismo e gli obiettivi

“Ci sono più tesori in un libro che in tutti i covi dei pirati dell'Isola del Tesoro… e meglio di ogni altra cosa, puoi goderti queste ricchezze ogni giorno della tua vita.”

“Se puoi sognarlo puoi farlo.”

“Prendi una buona idea e mantienila. Inseguila, e lavoraci fino a quando non funziona bene.”

“Amo Topolino più di qualsiasi donna abbia mai conosciuto.”

“Ho lottato contro una dura concorrenza per tutta la mia vita. Non saprei come andare avanti senza di essa.”

“Credevo che Disneyland fosse unica al mondo, invece ora ho visto l'originale.”

“Questo è il vero problema con il mondo, molti crescono, e poi dimenticano.”

“Le risate sono senza tempo, l'immaginazione non ha età e i sogni non muoiono mai.”

“Sono sempre stato convinto che il modo per tenere i bambini fuori dai guai è farli interessare alle cose.”

“Suppongo che la mia formula potrebbe essere: sognare, diversificare e non perdere mai un angolo.”

“Potete immaginare, creare e costruire il luogo più meraviglioso della terra ma occorreranno sempre le persone perché il sogno diventi realtà.”

“Quando i ragazzi si mettono in gravi pasticci, generalmente la colpa è dei genitori, non dei figli. Se, quando succede qualcosa di spiacevole, si va a fondo nella questione, si scopre generalmente che c'è qualcosa che non va nella famiglia. In troppi casi sono i genitori ad aver problemi e bisogno di aiuto.”

“Spero solo che non perdiamo mai di vista una cosa: che tutto è iniziato con un topo.”

“Dicono che sono un conservatore, ma io mi considero un autentico liberale.”

“Disneyland è come un pezzo di argilla: se c'è qualcosa che non mi piace, non me ne sto lì: ricomincio a modellare e rinnovare.”

“Fatti, non parole. Ecco come vedo io la religione nella vita di tutti i giorni.”

“Un uomo non dovrebbe mai trascurare la sua famiglia per gli affari.”

“Non ci facciamo influenzare dalle tecniche o dai modi della concorrenza.”

“Fino a quando un personaggio non acquista personalità non è convincente.”

“Girls bored me — they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.”

“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.”

“We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.”

“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.”

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

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

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

“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What are you doing with a car here in 1860?”

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

“I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person, as should also the young boy to whom Harris' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch. Several tests in previous pictures, especially in The Three Caballeros, were encouraging in the way living action and animation could be dovetailed. Finally, months ago, we 'took our foot in hand,' in the words of Uncle Remus, and jumped into our most venturesome but also more pleasurable undertaking.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.”

“The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project — in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World — will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.”

“I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.”

“Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.”

“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.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main… and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”

“I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin — how do we start answering this great challenge? Well, we're convinced we must start answering the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a special kind of new community that will always be in a state of becoming. It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world.”

“I’ve never believed in doing sequels. I didn’t want to waste the time I have doing a sequel; I’d rather be using that time doing something new and different ”

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

“I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions which a few short years ago would have seemed impossible to secure with a cartoon character. Some of the action produced in the finished cartoon of today is more graceful than anything possible for a human to do.”

“I don’t make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures. ”

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

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. ”

“No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.”

“Weve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.”