Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

— Daniel Goleman

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost…

— Daniel Goleman

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or…

— Daniel Goleman

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first…

— Carl Rogers

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot.…

— Trent Reznor

I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building…

— Hiro Murai

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however,…

— James A. Murphy

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind…

— Paul MacCready

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

— Fausto Cercignani

“... stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.”

— Paul Wilkes

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle