Daydreaming Quotes - Page 3

• You can spend your time daydreaming
  or make use of it in other ways.

  Erik Qualman

  Use, Way

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• I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

  Seamus Heaney

  People, Albatross, Affliction

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

  Jim Sorensen

  Vision, Action, Nightmare

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• Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Education, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

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• If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

  Adam Duritz

  Distance, Life Is, Shame

  "Song: 'Mrs. Potter's Lullaby'". 2000.

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• Prepare while others are daydreaming.

  William Arthur Ward

  Preparation

  William Arthur Ward, “Believe while others”

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• People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, People, Church

  Kurt Vonnegut (1981). “Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage”

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• You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Future, Listening Ear

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• Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Couple, Knowing, Sky

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 17, 2012

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• Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

  Patch Adams

  Positivity, Opportunity, Play

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• It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

  Gordon Getty

  Style, Distracted, Persons

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• Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

  Michael Connelly

  Hard Work, Thinking, Mind

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• The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

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• Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dreamer, World, Bears

  "What is the origin of the name al-Qaida?" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2002.

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• Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Time, Past

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• I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Wish

  'The Rival Ladies' (1664) act 3, sc. 1

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• I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

  Ian Curtis

  Factories, Used, Really Happy

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• If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

  Francis Bacon

  Slides, Succession, Ifs

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• you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

  William Joyce

  Dream, Powerful, Needs

  William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

  Tom Peters

  Phrases, Waste, Wasting Time

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from Aug 19, 2013

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• If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Cost, Ifs

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Thinking Big”, p.26, David C Cook

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• Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Goal, Action, Planning

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