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Walt Disney on Celebrity
2.22.04
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Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, and founded the Disney Empire. Once someone asked him, "How does it feel to be a celebrity?"
"Feels fine," Disney said, but he didn't stop there. "Feels fine when it helps get a good seat for a football game. But celebrity status never helped me make a good film or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn't even keep the fleas off our dogs—and if celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then there can't be that much in being a celebrity."
This is Howard Butt, Jr., of Laity Lodge. Our culture places great importance on public recognition—but it's not who we are in public that defines us. It's who we are when no one is watching—in the high calling of our daily work.
"Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word."
READER'S COMMENTS
"Character is doing the right thing when no one is looking." - J.C. Watts (U.S. Congressman, Representative for Oklahoma)
wpinson 2/23/2004 10:20:02 AM
Being a celebrity is not everything in life ,but the lives you have touched ,the people you have been a source of blessing and encouragement to.
As celebrities if you have kept all you had to yourself,if you have not shared your life,love and time with others positively you have lived afruitless life.
we should always know that all that we are and have are given to us by God and these are not meant for us alone but also for others.
As a celebrity a simple smile an little act of kindness will go a long way to bless someone.
Stay sweet all.
folake
Being a celebrity is a good thing.But what is more important is what is on the inside of you. How many lives you are able to touch in the course of your life. Above all its what you really are when no one is looking.
When God looks at you what does he see??