We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I've been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

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

Dream in a pragmatic way.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

You can't give up on your dreams.

Never let your dreams go away.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.