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Walt Disney interview, New York Times, (March 1938).

We invest them with life a caricature of life. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public.

Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country who are just as corny as I am. When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. We're not trying to entertain the critics … I'll take my chances with the public. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.

Walt disney keep moving forward how to#

1.11.8.1 How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004).

What did Dory say in Finding Nemo/Dory? Just keep swimming. What did Giselle say in Zootopia? Birds don’t just fly, they fall down, then get up. There have been countless inventions never made and too many ideas never seen made real all because a person did not get back up after failing. But every time you fail, instead of wallowing on the ground in self pity, get back up and keep moving forward. I quit!” We would not have Mickey, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and the many other things that we do today. What would have happened it Walt had said, “You know what, I’ve tried this whole animation thing, I have failed too many times. But we know the legendary tale of Walt on the train ride back home to California, drawing sketches of a mouse, that would later become the character that we all know and love: Mickey Mouse.

For many people, this would have been the point of giving up. When Walt went to New York to discuss the terms for Oswald, he was informed by Charles Mintz that he did not own the rights to Oswald and, in fact, Mintz had gone behind Walt and hired practically all of his animators and staff away from Walt. Oswald was a huge success, and Walt thought that he had finally created something that was going to put him in the big time.

You may know about the loss of his first big character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He went through bankruptcy, his characters failed, he made bad, one-sided deals that eventually ruined him yet with each and every failure, Walt picked himself up, brushed the dirt off of him and KEPT MOVING FORWARD. Before Mickey Mouse was created (and this is a VERY abridged version of Walt’s early life!) Walt endured failure after failure.

But it used to not be that way, in fact, if you were to describe Walt in one word, many would have called him a failure. Mickey Mouse is one of the most recognizable and beloved characters in the whole world. Try to walk through the grocery store without seeing at least one Disney character, it is practically impossible. You see the influence of Disney everywhere you go. It is hard for us today to imagine a world without Disney. Walt Disney was not always a household name, believe it or not. Some of you who read this blog are Disney Freaks, like me, and already know much about the history and the life of Walt Disney, but some of you may not. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” I think there have been very few people who understood this concept of carrying on in the face of adversity than Walt Disney. Walt Disney is credited for saying, “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.