Quote #88793
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
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Interpretation
The line contrasts nostalgia with an ethic of continual reinvention. “We don’t look backwards for very long” frames the past as instructive but not binding, while “moving forward…opening up new doors” casts progress as an active, experimental practice rather than a single breakthrough. The emphasis on curiosity suggests that innovation is driven less by certainty or planning than by a willingness to explore and to accept risk, surprise, and change. In a Disney context, the sentiment aligns with the company’s self-mythology of technological and creative expansion—new formats, attractions, and storytelling methods—presenting curiosity as the engine that turns imagination into concrete new “paths.”



