I bought a book many years ago from WDW -"Walt Disney Famous Quotes". It's LOADED with different quotes... here are a few that might go along with the Partner's Statue...
"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. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel, or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle. And nobody gets any older."
"Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things. So I think happiness is contentment but it doesn't mean you have to have wealth. All individuals are different and some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy."
"The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks to me and I still speak for him."
"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse."
"All we intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter."
" You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world... but it requires people to make that dream a reality."
"People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working."
"Fun and wonder are the important elements, in addition to quality in production and performance, which are most responsible for the success of Disney productions. Fun is the sense of cheerful reaction-the appeal to love of laughter. Wonder in that we appeal to the constant wonder in men's minds, which is stimulated by imagination."
We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. Wed did not sit down and say to ourselves, "How can we make a big pile of dough?" It just happened."
"The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together-and that's the backbone of our business, catering to families-that's what we hope to do."
"Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly."
"Here you leave today-and visit the worlds of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy."
"Well I think by this time my staff, my young group of executives, and everything else, are convinced that Walt is right. That quality will out. And so I think they're going to stay with that policy because it's proved that it's a good business policy. Give the people everything you can give them. Keep the place as clean as you can keep it. Keep it friendly, you know. Make it a real fun place to be. I think they're convinced and I think they'll hang on after... as you say... well...after Disney."
"When you're curious, yo ufind lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."
"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."
"Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as muscle grows flabby with disuse so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it."
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Hope those help some!!! Good luck in your venture! I bet she'll love it!
