Daydreaming Quotes - Page 5

• I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, People, Would Be

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• Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

  Patti Smith

  Strong, Media, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Exercise, Imagination

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• Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

  Albert Camus

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

  Conor McGregor

  Thinking, Feelings, Cameras

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

  Tim Tharp

  Too Late, Should, Supreme Being

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

  Jenna Fischer

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "'Office' Gossip with Jenna Fischer". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

  Michael Pollan

  Rewards, Form

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.9, Random House

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• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Animal, Joy

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  Samantha Shannon

  Ideas, World, Normal

  Young author Samantha Shannon faces great expectations in 'The Bone Season'" by Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  William Martin

  Dream, Children, Self

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dream, Distance, Sleep

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.234, Penguin

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• I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

  Greg Maddux

  Thinking, Attention, Body

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• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Exquisite, One Thing

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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• I'm a figment of your imagination. You're only imagining that I'm sitting here eating with you. Because I'm just so freaking awesome that people daydream about being seen with me.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Imagination, Sitting

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.187, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Men, Islands

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Mother my friends are no longer my friends
  And the games we once played have no meaning
  I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
  So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

  Suzanne Vega

  Mother, Games, Shy

  Song: Bad Wisdom

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• The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

  Amy Harmon

  Real, Done, Real Things

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• And they say
  She's in the class A Team
  Stuck in her daydream
  Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
  Her face seems
  Slowly sinking, wasting
  Crumbling like pastries
  And they scream
  The worst things in life come free to us
  Cos we're just under the upperhand
  Go mad for a couple grams
  And she don't want to go outside tonight
  And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
  Or sells love to another man
  It's too cold outside
  For angels to fly
  Angels to fly

  Ed Sheeran

  Couple, Team, Angel

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