When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt DisneyRead
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
Interpretation
Lacking knowledge of great stories and poems limits one's richness in life.
Walt Disney emphasizes the importance of literature and storytelling in enriching a person's life. Great stories and poems contain wisdom, inspiration, and cultural heritage that no amount of material wealth can replace. By inviting individuals to embrace these literary treasures, he suggests that they will lead a more fulfilling and meaningful existence.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of education, this quote can be used to highlight the value of literature.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.
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