“Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.” PeopleWayInspirationalUseDreamBigsSeemsUsedHavensIncludingFinancialFollowingInsanityIrrationalMisused Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.” DreamDesireArtistTurnsAchieveHavensTerribleStriveHungerObsessionGreedyJuice Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.” ThinkingShouldMindHas BeensDifferentStatesEnoughStoriesDreamBigsIndividualSleepPayEmotionAttentionPsychologyFireHavensResearchWake UpStructurePay AttentionDreamerSubconsciousSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsBookDreamRichHavensLonelyOppositesBusAmerican DreamRise AboveFreewaysLonely Person Book:Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories Source: Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.” ThinkingMenWayMayDreamNextNationsNumbersHavensObjectsBecomingFemaleCourtAtheistSupremeNervousSeatsPotSenatorsSupreme CourtSpoilCountingLatinoMeltingAmbiguousEdgyMelting Pot Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.” PeopleThinkingWholeHomeDreamWould BeArtistHouseHavensCamerasPaintPianoCaptureEfficiencyEditingEquipmentSuppliesMicrophonesRecorders Author:Will Smith
“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.” WritingYearsDoeBookDreamEyeLastsFallThreeHouseBlackHavensHairBrokenGoes OnTenLettersObstaclesSpellsThree YearsDevotedNew BooksUnwrittenBlack EyesShambles Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner
“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.” MenLittlesImportantHomeDreamLife IsGoalLaughingWifeModernHavensCreaturesComfortableApproachComplexesTendenciesPipeLife GoalDemisePapaSlippers Author:Arlene Dahl
“You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.” WellsStoriesDreamMightHavensLongingPassionateConvictionConfusionTheme Author:Marion Dane Bauer
“I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.” PeopleDreamYoungImaginationVisionHavensScoreEmpowered Author:Nicolas Cage
“If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.” IfsFeelsBookDreamSchoolMiddleHavensClothesHolidayPublishMalls Book:Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer Source: Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer
“I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.” DreamAbleArtistActorsCompanyEffectsHavensDirectorsSafeFinalsProducersEditsSafe Haven Author:Brittany Murphy
“I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.” PeopleWantDreamEasyResponsibilityHavensShapesSurroundTaking ResponsibilityChasingEasy Life Author:Aimee Mullins