1. Cultivating a Culture
of Creativity
Lessons Gifted Education Can Learn from Disney & Pixar
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22. In 1919,
Walt Disney
was allegedly
fired from the
Kansas City Star
because he
“lacked
imagination
and had no
good ideas.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/walt-disney/gallery-man/
27. http://www.wondersofdisney.webs.com/pals/figment/figment1.gif
ONE LITTLE SPARK
We all have sparks, imaginations.
That's how our minds,
create creations.
For they can make,
Our wildest dreams come true.
Those magic sparks,
in me and you.
Imagination, imagination.
A dream,
Can be a dream come true.
With just that spark,
in me and you.
30. “Disneyland will never be completed.
It will continue to grow as long as
there is imagination left in the world.”
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/destinations/disneyland/
32. "When we consider a project, we
really study it - not just the surface
idea, but everything about it. And
when we go into that new project,
we believe in it all the way.
We have CONFIDENCE
in our ability to
do it right.
And we work hard
to do the best
possible job.”
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/galleries/x701/65338.jpg
55. It’s not just about
finding something
you “like” to do.
Explore, try new
things, until you find
something you love
to do. Then you
have found your
passion.
-Marty Sklar
61. And one thing it
takes to accomplish
something is
courage.
When you're curious, you
find lots of interesting
things to do.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Alice
http://wondersofdisney2.yolasite.com/merida.php
67. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY
68. candor
n. the state or quality of being
frank, open, and sincere in
speech or expression
72. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness
- Ed Catmull
73. Jan O’Connor
Imagineer
Nobody wants to
be mediocre.
Only the mediocre
person is always
at his best.
You have to fail.
You have to take
risks.
74. “I never look back,
darling.
It distracts from
the now.”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mvN1xyDirFc/Um5cwasRMrI/AAAAAAAAC5s/f0P5kH0G1gc/s1600/Edna_face.png
75. NO ONE - not Walt, not Steve, not the people of Pixar -
ever achieved creative success by clinging to what used to work.