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Walt Disney, born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, was an outstanding animator, producer, director, and entrepreneur. He founded the Disney Company and introduced numerous beloved animated characters and films, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Snow White. Disney's works not only entertained audiences worldwide but also had a profound impact on the animation industry and culture.

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Famous Walt Disney Quotes

“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”

Life Feelings Kids Imagination Excitement Disneyland

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“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

Life Stills I Can Imagination My Own Experiments Satisfied Limitation Resent Continuous Learning

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“Fantasy and reality often overlap.”

Ideas Dream Reality Imagination Fantasy Fantasy And Reality

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“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”

Giving Mind Wells Important Real Facts Reality Seems Spirit Imagination Fantasy Materials Senses Live By Cartoon Animation

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“First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream.”

Thinking Life Firsts Believe Ideas Dream Imagination Thirds Dare To Dream

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“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.”

Ifs Years Children Grows Born Imagination Exercise Blessed Cease Muscles Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

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“Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.”

Needs I Can Ideas Dream Turns Imagination White Issues Alive Finished Snow Developing Breathing Parks Wraps Need A Change Disneyland Snow White

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“It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.”

Giving Kind Character Stories Form Enjoy Imagination Challenges Screens Classic Visuals

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“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”

Mean Art Ideas Ends Whole Dream Waiting Imagination Trouble Exciting Flying Handle Plenty Means To An End

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“I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

Ideas Dream Imagination My Own Limitation Resent

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“When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.”

Ideas Dream Reality Loses Imagination Fantasy Sight

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“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.”

World Would Be Eye Past Imagination Color Illusion Delight Nostalgia Warmth My Imagination Disneyland Through The Eyes Past And Present Animator

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“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

Order Imagination Again And Again Storyteller Instill

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“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.”

Children Born Imagination Blessed Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

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“We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.”

“Worry is a waste of imagination.”

Imagination Worry Waste

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“My imagination creates my reality.”

Reality Imagination My Imagination

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“There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.”

Knows Moving Imagination Secret Know How Creative Path Doors Approach Curiosity Opening Moving Forward Curious New Things Exploring Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Opening Up New Paths

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“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”

“Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Ifs Inspirational Dream Motivational Success Can Do Imagination Inspiring Vision Imagine Positive Educational Attraction Moving Forward Law Of Attraction Your Dreams Aspiration Imagine That Dreams Come True You Can Do It Our Dreams Key To Success My Imagination Road To Success Recipe For Success I Can Do It Dreams Do Come True I Had A Dream Dreams And Reality Do It Yourself Just A Dream Dreams You Have Achieving Your Goals Small Dreams Dreams And Goals Live Your Dreams Following Dreams Achieving Dreams Believe In Your Dreams Imagination Creativity Life Dream Dream Reality Following My Dreams Power Of Attraction Visions And Dreams Ladder Of Success Achieving Your Dreams Inspirational Dream Disney Company Dreams And Aspirations Goals Dreams True Dreams Life And Dreams Keep You Motivated Imagination And Dreams Dreaming And Doing Your Dreams And Goals Imagination And Reality Future Dreams Ideas And Dreams Motivate Students Disney Animation Dreaming Big And Goals Inspiring Life Changing

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“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”

Life Loses Imagination One Thing Determination Sight Mice My Imagination Disneyland

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

World Inspirational Long Left Grows Imagination Positive Thinking My Imagination Disneyland Disney Company Children Imagination

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“I believe in being an innovator.”

Believe Ideas Dream I Believe Change Imagination I Believe In Innovators

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About the Author

Born: December 5, 1901
Died: December 15, 1966
Known for: Animator
Quotes: 405

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