The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
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… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the… — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings.… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
