Thursday 16 June 2011

A Word of Wisdom From Walt Disney

By Danyel R Frazier


Right through history there have been some great people whose words remain as memorable today, as they were long ago; interestingly a number of Disney quotes sre known to be amongst all of the wisdom.

You can probably remember many of the Disney movies, and, you may even be able to quote lines from them off of the top of your head, but would it come as much of a shock to you to find that a lot of the Disney quotes are as applicable to modern day situations, as they were to the predicament that the characters in the movies found themselves in?

Of course there is the Disney quotes like; "How could I have been so stupid?" This could easily ruin the business!" from the movie Monsters Inc. this is not a good example of Disney quotes that is appropriate give the condition of the economy in the late 2000's. Whereas from Finding Nemo, "Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming; are you my conscience?" seems extremely appropriate today, because, what do we do? We swim, swim, and we swim.

Walt Disney was a man way ahead of most contemporaries, with his futuristic concepts, and his clear understanding of people, evident in the theme parks he created. A great many Walt Disney quotes highlight the insight of the man.

While he didn't actually write the movie classics coming out of the Disney studios, anyone who has read the original versions of the stories will know that they have been substantially altered; many of the classic movie lines being absent from the original short stories, and it's clear that many of these great Disney quotes wouldn't have been in there if he hadn't approved of them, and what they stood for.

Anyone old enough or lucky enough to have actually seen the weekly shows where Walt Disney would introduce the stories himself, would know that there are many Disney quotes that are unfortunately not as widely known as the ones in the movies. These Disney quotes are equally important in todays environment.

So, in the future, when you're laughing at the circumstances that poor old Donald Duck finds himself in, not always of his own making; you're listening to the wise words of Merlin in 'The Sword and the Stone'; or you're just trying to work out whether Goofy is right when he sings 'the world owes me a living...'; listen more closely to some of the more famous Walt Disney quotes, and see whether there's anything in them that applies to your own life.

So, to quote a wise old bear 'When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming.' I know, I'm not too sure how that applies to this article, at the moment, but it'll come.




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