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Walt Disney on Disneyland ,Dreams, Ideas, and Imagination

 

Disneyland

“Disneyland is a work of love.”

“Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.”

“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.”

“Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It’s unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don’t work for a dollar – you work to create and have fun.”

“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.”

“I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park. I want to feel they’re in another world.”

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953. In those days it was all flat land – no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships – just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

“I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.”

“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.”

“To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America… with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”

“We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.”

“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn’t realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”












Dreams, Ideas, and Imagination

“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.”

“Cinderella believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn’t come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”

“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.”

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

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

“Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.”

“Fantasy and reality often overlap.”

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

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”

“I believe in being an innovator.”

“I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

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














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