Walt's Early Life
Life Lessons
Career
Walt's Identitiy
Movies/Films
100
The lesson Walt displayed as a boy while living in Marceline.
What is Lesson 1: Live the Adventure?
100
The lesson that was displayed when Walt went through two box office disasters, the death of his mother, and an employee strike.
What is Lesson 7: Dealing With Loss?
100
The person who took “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” away from Walt.
Who is Charles(Charlie) Mintz
100
The lesson that explains how Walt was a person who responded creatively to situations: “But Walt chose to respond creatively. He responded with imagination” (62).
What is Lesson 4: Unleash Your Imagination?
100
The movie that had a mermaid as the main character and displayed the theme of Lesson 3, “Dare to Do the Impossible”.
What is "The Little Mermaid"?
200
The person to defend Walt in saying, “ ‘Don’t take it from him anymore!’” (3), after Walt’s father got mad at Walt for handing him a tool slowly.
Who is Roy Disney?
200
The main idea of this lesson is to exemplify the following characteristics: Vision, People Skills, Communication Skills, Good Character, Boldness, Competence, and a Servant’s Heart.
What is Lesson 5: Become an Animated Leader?
200
The first person Walt worked and made a company with.
Who is Ubbe Iwerks?
200
The lesson that gives evidence as to how Walt always embraced the future?
What is Lesson 11: Ask Yourself "How About Tomorrow?"?
200
The lesson that was exemplified when Walt bet his whole studio on the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
What is Lesson 6: Take a Risk?
300
The lesson that was displayed when Walt got his first office rent-free and sold Laugh-O-gram cartoons to Pictorial Clubs for 11,000 dollars without dispute.
What is Lesson 2: Be a Salesman?
300
This lesson stresses the importance of building relationships with people that have different personalities than you: “ ‘Every Walt needs a Roy and every Roy needs a Walt.’” (295).
What is Lesson 13: Build Complementary Partnerships?
300
The lesson that was displayed when Walt was working on Disneyland and said, “ ‘Our goal at Disneyland is to always give the people more than they expect.’”.
What is Lesson 8: Plus Every Experience?
300
The lesson that shows that Walt lived to inspire children of the future and contains this quote: “ ‘Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.’” (260).
What is Lesson 12: Live for the Next Generation?
300
The two box office disasters of 1940.
What is "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia"?
400
The lesson Walt displayed when he went bankrupt in Kansas City but still went to Hollywood believing he would get a job.
What is Lesson 3: Dare to Do the Impossible?
400
The lesson that states that before a person dies, they should do everything in their power to make the most out of the time that remains: “You are going to die…What am I doing with the time that remains?...a healthy awareness of death should make us more grateful for the time we have here on earth” (324).
What is Lesson 15: Accept Your Mortality?
400
The lesson that is exemplified by the quote, “It(Disneyland) paid off because Walt wouldn’t quit” (215).
What is Lesson 9: Be a Person of Stick-to-it-ivity?
400
The lesson that this quote reinforces: “ ‘Of all the influential and successful people that I have ever studied, Walt was the most focused on his goals” (296).
What is Lesson 14: Stay Focused?
400
The first cartoon to have a soundtrack that Walt Disney made in 1928.
What is "Steamboat Willie"?
500
Walt's first theatrical play that he attended.
What is "Peter Pan"?
500
The lesson that supports the statement, “God has given each of us a mission in life, and the gifts and talents with which to accomplish that mission” (387).
What is Lesson 17: Be the Person God Made You to Be?
500
The lesson demonstrated by Walt’s appreciation for any opinions or ideas, and his willingness to use them.
What is Lesson 10: Become a Sponge for Ideas?
500
The lesson that shows that Walt always put his loved ones before his business.
What is Lesson 16: Make Family Your Top Priority?
500
The year that Walt Disney’s movie, "Dumbo", premiered.
What is the year 1941?