Daydreaming Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Writing, School, One Day

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• What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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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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• 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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• My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Mom, Country, House

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  New Year, Work, Reading

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• There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cheer, Coffee, Fire

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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• I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.

  Margaret Haddix

  Cuddling, Together, Engagement

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Father, Thinking, Hair

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• When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

  Lev Grossman

  Children, Book, Thinking

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  School, Hated

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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• Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

  Tony Buzan

  Children, Thinking, Brain

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• I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the "A-Team" van or something.

  Ernest Cline

  Team, Silly, Years

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Drifting Off, Goal, Finding Yourself

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• All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

  Eda LeShan

  Race, Roots, Progress

  Eda J. LeShan (1982). “Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series "Getting along".”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Moving, Passion

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

  Rachel Weisz

  Brother, Activist, Gardener

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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• Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Disappointment, Children, Thinking

  Bruno Bettelheim (1991). “Freud's Vienna and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Dream, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

  Bram Stoker

  I Hate You, Air, Sea

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.61, "F+W Media, Inc."

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