Dreamer Quotes - Page 21

• The dreamer is a madman quiescent,
  the madman is a dreamer in action.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Action, Madmen

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• Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

  Sarah Carter

  Thinking, World, Way

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Peaceful, World

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.258, Haymarket Books

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

  Robert Greene

  War, Mistake, Emotion

  50 Cent, Robert Greene (2010). “The 50th Law”, p.45, Profile Books

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• My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.

  Sho Baraka

  Bed

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• In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Heart, Ideas, Hands

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• Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

  Mary Doria Russell

  Years, Grace, Hours

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• Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

  Christine Pelosi

  Dream, House, Deportation

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Artist, Order, Years

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• A society without its dreamers can never be free.

  Yehudi Menuhin

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• The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Brother, Ocean, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Dream, Religious, Home

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Dream, Art

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Past, Squad

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Real, Men, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• All the time it's a changing
  And all the dreamers are waking.

  Kate Bush

  Time, Waking

  Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005

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• Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Clothes, Optimism

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• A dreamer born is a hero bred.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Love, Dream, Hero

  Song: Heroes And Heroines, Album: Hometown Girl, 1987

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• Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

  Cindy Sherman

  Love, Dream, Life And Love

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• The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Dream, Myth

  "The Power of Myth".

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