What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (...) There is a part… — Anna Sands Copy Share Image
“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“The power behind living a dream lies in either believing it's a dream or knowing it's not.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
