20 quotes
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
A man should never neglect his family for business.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Art was always a means to an end with me.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Laughter is America's most important export.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland — the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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 twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
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.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)