Top 100 Quotes About Ideas And Dreams
#1. A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
Paul Newman
#2. There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.
Kris Jenner
#3. Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
#5. The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
W. Arthur Porter
#6. Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
Kent Haruf
#7. Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
Gloria Steinem
#10. Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.
Genevieve Gerard
#11. How many good ideas have you let go because you didn't believe in yourself? You have to believe to achieve!
Tony Curl
#12. At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
Orhan Pamuk
#13. The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
Les Brown
#14. From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me ... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
Danielle De Niese
#15. It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake.
George Orwell
#16. I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Emily Bronte
#17. Thank you, Dear Creator, for Life. Thank you for Dreams. Thank you for Ideas and Thoughts and Feelings. Most of all, thank you for choosing me to grow - just for today - and to know the Wonder of Your World and its many Possibilities.
Janie Jasin
#18. That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.
Susie Morgenstern
#19. In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#20. Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
Antonin Sertillanges
#21. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte
#22. The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
Daniel Woodrell
#23. Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.
Wilferd Peterson
#24. Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
Bruce Coville
#25. Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams.
Gustave Flaubert
#26. Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy Bennett
#27. All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.
Paulo Coelho
#28. Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it
and then reap the fruits of our labors.
Oprah Winfrey
#29. If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
Yann Martel
#30. Good ideas are a link between the real world and the world of myths and dreams.
James Altucher
#31. I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
David Lynch
#32. The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, - not the material of my every-day existence
but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
Edgar Allan Poe
#33. I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
Karlie Kloss
#34. When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
Maya Angelou
#35. I am a collector of hopes and peregrine truths, a shepherd of thoughts, ideas, projects and dreams too important not to be realized. I'm an abstract concept that has no body, no smell, no boundaries, no shape and no color. I am the omnilogos.
Michele Amitrani
#36. You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow's peace out of today's crisis.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#37. Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
Brian Jacques
#38. The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
Jason Mraz
#39. I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'
Laverne Cox
#40. There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
Herbert Spencer
#41. He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas.
Steve Martin
#42. People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.
Joshua Dysart
#43. Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.
Naomi Kinsman
#44. New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
Yayoi Kusama
#45. Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Red Red Rover
#46. Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.
Will Smith
#47. Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96)
Injap Sia
#48. It's very hard to have ideas. It's very hard to put yourself out there, it's very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Amy Poehler
#49. It's good to have an idea about what you want to do with your life before just doing things. If you have goals and dreams, it doesn't really matter if you achieve them, but if you have them it's much easier to not get lost. It's easier to make decisions.
Tove Styrke
#50. Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
Simon Sinek
#51. We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Roger Von Oech
#52. I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.
Hafez Nazeri
#53. Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! "Sugar cane" dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.
Stephen King
#55. Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.
Karl Lagerfeld
#56. In a society without security and stability, there are no intellectuals or businessmen or artists. When man is constantly in fight-or-flight mode he is no better than an animal, with no chance for ideas to be nurtured or dreams to be pursued.
Amish Tripathi
#57. IMAGINATION: one of the most powerful tools that humans have to help us visualize our dreams and goals. Imagination is our ability to form mental images and concepts in our brains to foster ideas and turn our goals into reality.
Anonymous
#58. Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.
Patricia Garfield
#60. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful ...
Max McKeown
#62. The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
Anne Rice
#63. My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
John Astin
#64. Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#65. My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
Alexis Wright
#66. Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them.
B.A. Gabrielle
#67. My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.
Chris Van Allsburg
#68. I believe men need to get together and talk about what it means to be male - to share dreams, business ideas, ministry visions, and struggles, and to pray together and declare war on the weakness among us.
Bruce Lengeman
#69. The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
Jack Welch
#70. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#71. Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself
Paresh Shah
#72. Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams ... their demons
Eliza Granville
#74. America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.
Ronald Reagan
#75. Analysis paralysis is an epidemic that cripples countless dreams and great ideas. Be swift, decisive, and always move forward!
Matthew Loop
#76. I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.
Emily Bronte
#77. In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!
Jaeda DeWalt
#78. Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.
Gloria Steinem
#79. We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
Audre Lorde
#80. Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.
Yuri Orlov
#81. To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
Leo Buscaglia
#82. Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they'll rise up and taken you with them.
William Kamkwamba
#83. If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.
Richie Norton
#84. An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.
B.A. Gabrielle
#85. Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.
Gabrielle Roy
#86. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE ! Your Dreams ! Your Ideas ! Your Inventions ! Your Vision ! Never let anyone tell you You Can't
Raj
#87. Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush
#88. As we ask God for some blessing, we have an obligation to participate ourselves in the fulfillment of those dreams, aspirations, hopes, and ideas.
Jimmy Carter
#89. The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Andre Malraux
#90. The ideas for the books come from my dreams. It is the readers' vivid imaginations that bring the dreams to life!
P.S. Winn
#91. Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Steven Callahan
#92. As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.
Christine Downing
#93. There's an argument for being stubbornly unrealistic about your dreams. Otherwise they're not dreams - they're just ideas you had once and then left behind.
Mary Forsberg Weiland
#94. We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
Mark Batterson
#95. Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires and ideas.
Euginia Herlihy
#96. If you aren't having impractical ideas, and dreaming impossible dreams, then you aren't reaching far enough, high enough, or deep enough!
Dixie Gillaspie
#97. The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
Ray Bradbury
#98. Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!
Doreen Virtue
#99. 'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
Kim Edwards
#100. Champions are made and not born. Champion's feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited
Ikechukwu Joseph
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