Great Throughts Treasury

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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.

Dreams | Heart | Will |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

Dreams | Money |

Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson

And then there is the thrill of creatively sowing ideas and inspiration into the minds of others. Often our contributions will actually change lives by sharing appreciation, courage, love, and joy. Carry the ideal of being a creative sower, that you are on the side of growth, plenty, peace, and progress. Make it a point to scatter creative seeds every day of your life!

Adventure | Art | Courage | Curiosity | Daring | Day | Dreams | Faith | Flexibility | Grave | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Men | Reading | Safe | Theories | Flexibility | Art | Stamina |

Wilhelm Reich

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

Civilization | Culture | Distinguish | Dreams | Looks | Man | Peace | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Science |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Dreams | Imagination |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Born of necessity, the little fellow [Mickey Mouse] literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

Dreams | Money |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

People don't care what you know. They just want to know that you care.

Ability | Age | Dreams | Entertainment | Success | World |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

People spend money when and where they feel good.

Dreams | Success |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter, longer than sun or any revolving satellite, or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.

Dreams | Little | Time |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends, nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, it was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, and in all their looks and words.

Dreams |

Washington Irving

All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

Childhood | Dreams | Growth | Happy | Little | Mind | Past | Power | Present | Spirit | Blessed |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

Dreams | People |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

Leave a clear place in the consciousness.

Dreams |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

A million eyes, a million boots in line, without expression, waiting for a sign.

Dreams | Life | Life | Man | Order |

W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield

[Charles Dickens was] the bravest man who ever lived. He fathered ten children before they became tax deductions.

Dreams | Ego | Personality | Witness |

W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Dreams | Freedom | Right | Spirit | Thought | Thought |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

The unconscious is composed of multiple, autonomous personalities. These personalities affect our state of health -- from allergic response to disease states such as diabetes and cancer. He suggests that the unconscious mind is far more extensive and powerful than is generally acknowledged, and that the normal conscious mind cannot hope to control the personalities within. Esoteric rites and initiations, he maintains, were designed to call forth particular personalities from the unconscious at appropriate stages of development.

Dreams | Ego | Influence | Life | Life | Mind | Mystery | Nature | Position | Reflection | Think |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

Experience the mystery of pain, open to it, allow it. When you do, the experience shifts. What basically generates pain is the defense against it.

Dreams | Journey | Life | Life | Majority | Perception | Soul | Wants | Will |

Wallace Stevens

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Death | Dreams | Fulfillment | Mother |

Wallace Stevens

All history is modern history.

Dreams |