Daydreaming Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Daydreaming Inspirational Learning Loafing Looks Pay People Teaching Thinking Trouble Want
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet 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 your mind… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully. — Victor Mature Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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 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 is an… — 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 on autopilot.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“... 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 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 sciences. — 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: he found… — 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 line between… — 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 your mind… — 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. Adults however,… — 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?” The question… — 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 and building… — 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