Quotes About Dreams

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.

Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.