“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.” MenMindMeanPlayDreamActionCertainEmotionMeditationSubjectsEffectsKeysNervousCertaintyAnalysisAbstractBentPsychicsIrresistibleKeyboardsDominatingTheoristsSensuousWagnerBaudelaire Author:Charles Baudelaire
“One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.” DreamMightFantasyAbsurdAnalysisOur DreamsIlluminationUntrueInconsistentAbracadabra Book:A Preface to Politics Source: A Preface to Politics
“On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.” NeedsDreamWatchesFootballBalanceClubsSoccerPresidentialAnalysisLeagueContinentsPlatini Author:Robert Hughes
“Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success” ThinkingBelieveHumansSelfDreamValuesHoursNaturalChallengesDifferencesHellFocusWeekIdealsEntrepreneurTendenciesAnalysisMeritOddsAssessmentWishful ThinkingTenaciousSelf Analysis Author:Elon Musk