Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
It’s not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to – to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.
Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
That’s what you dream about. How you not going to think about making the big play, the game-changing play?
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
Every little job becomes a dream, and you don’t recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it’s like something you dreamed earlier.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don’t think we’re driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We’re driven by pessimism more.
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
I’m a ‘blue sky thinker’ and dream big.
As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson – so I’m setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I’m quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I’d love to have been in those.
I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
There’s no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you’ll be surprised what happens.
I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can’t do that anymore. It’s nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
I used to be a big ‘Star Search’ fan. I think it’s great people who have a music dream have a place to showcase their talent.
When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
Certainly driving a Ferrari is, at the same time, a dream come true, a huge responsibility and a great honor.
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
I’d like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I’d have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.
It doesn’t matter that I didn’t win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Being a Real Madrid player is the greatest dream you can imagine.
I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.
I always say, ‘To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!’
Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding – that, for me, was the American Dream.
It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
It started back in 2002, when there was hardly any reality television. ‘Survivor’ had just started. My hope and dream was that ‘The Bachelor’ would last one or two nights on network TV, so I might meet somebody in the network and then I could get a real job.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
It was my dream to become a WWE Diva.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
There are so many amazing directors I would love to work with, like Christopher Nolan, who is a total pipe dream.
Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one’s ability to realize one’s dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.
The more you dream the more you achieve.
I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
