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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
Bill Gates
Imagining without implementation is fantasizing.
2.
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
Ian Curtis
I formerly toiled in a manufacturing plant and I was quite content because I could daydream endlessly.
3.
I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.
Florence Welch
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. Novak
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I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
Albert Einstein
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You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.
Shakira
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She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
Toni Cade Bambara
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When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
Sergio Aragones
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Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
Taylor Swift
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
Anton Chekhov
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
Leonard Susskind
15.
You can spend your time daydreaming
or make use of it in other ways.
Erik Qualman
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
Kate Smith
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It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
David Morrissey
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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
Bruce Dickinson
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Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.
James Van Fleet
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
Amy Harmon
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I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.
John Sebastian
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I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
Rebecca Hall
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.
Robert Breault
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I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.
Jean Dujardin
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Francis Bacon
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If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.
John C. Maxwell
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There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.
Zach Condon
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We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
Julie Garwood
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It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.
Tim Tharp
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An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
Michael Pollan
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I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.
Tom Courtenay
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Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.
Rachel Weisz
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That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
Dan Chaon