Walt Disney Quotes

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

I never do the same thing twice.

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.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.