How to Be Like Walt Quotes

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious—and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” WALT DISNEY”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity.” JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Accept the pain of the past. Learn the lessons of the past. Embrace the nostalgic memories of the past. Then dream big dreams of the future and start chasing them!”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Dream big dreams, and pursue those dreams with courage, optimism and perseverance. Commit yourself to making the world a better place.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information.” WALT DISNEY”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Walt’s grandson, Walter Disney Miller, told me, “EPCOT was my grandfather’s biggest dream—the city of the future that would point the way to a better world. His dream remains unbuilt.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Just watch Snow White. Just visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Florida—he was laying the plans for the Florida park while he was on his death bed. People kept telling him his dreams were impossible. Walt knew better. He had wished upon a star.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Instead of getting mad or getting even, get creative.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Successful people are those who have learned how to learn. Whether college-educated or self-educated, successful people depend on themselves, not others, for their own knowledge, skills, and wisdom. People who are committed to life-long learning have everything they need to shape their own.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“The difference between today and tomorrow is some thing called change. It takes courage to embrace the future, because the future is about change, and change brings uncertainty and anxiety. We fear change; we prefer the comfort of the familiar. But change is inevitable. If we do not become future-focused, we are doomed to obsolescence when tomorrow arrives.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“And what is a futurist? Not a fortune-teller or a soothsayer, not a reader of tea leaves or crystal balls. A futurist is a planner and a doer. Futurists look at trends and innovation. They look for patterns of change. Then they act. Futurists don't just predict the future. They make the future happen.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“All people are essentially creative because we are all made in the image of a creative God. Creativity is our birthright; imagination is the essence of our being. Only when we are dreaming big dreams are we truly fulfilling our God-given purpose in life.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Isn’t that amazing? Here are all of these people, different in so many ways, yet united by their hopes and goals and dreams. This is how the world should be.” The”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.” WALT DISNEY Katherine”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present.” WALT DISNEY”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“One night, Walt and I looked out over the audience and saw hundreds of Olympic athletes from around the world, people of every race, language and nation. Walt’s eyes shone as he said, “Isn’t that amazing? Here are all of these people, different in so many ways, yet united by their hopes and goals and dreams. This is how the world should be.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“There was a moral foundation to Walt’s movies that people tapped into—a basic moral foundation. In Disney films, you see strong values and role models. You see the importance of being kind to others, of serving others, of finding joy even in adversity.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“I was stumped one day when a little boy asked, ‘Do you draw Mickey Mouse?’ And I had to admit I do not draw anymore. ‘Then you think up all the jokes and ideas?’ ‘No,’ I said, ‘I don’t do that.’ Finally, he looked at me and said, ‘Mr. Disney, just what do you do?’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another, and I gather pollen. I sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.’” WALT DISNEY”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“Walt had a way of communicating that was just magical,” composer Richard Sherman told me. “Simple, but magical. He would give you a challenge and say, ‘I know you can do this.’ He made you believe anything was possible. He made you proud to be on his team. And it really was a team effort—Walt would roll up his sleeves and go to work alongside the rest of us. “He saw potential in people who had never really done anything great. My brother Robert and I really had no track record in the music industry, but Walt heard a few of our songs and he gave us an opportunity and inspired us to keep topping ourselves. Without Walt to inspire us, I don’t know where we’d be today. “Walt always wanted you to find something wonderful in yourself, to believe in it and consider it God’s gift to you. God gives you the gift, and the rest is up to you. Walt taught me that what you do with that gift is your gift back to God.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life

“If each of us would dream big dreams, approach life with hope and confidence, and persevere until our dreams come true, then we would not only be more like Walt, but we would become the people God created us to be.”
― Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life