“You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.” NeedsYearsChildrenDreamBigsKidsThreeStepsSpeechTherapyNflThree YearsSpeakersSuburbsSmall StepsDyslexiaLispSpeech Therapy Book:Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families Source: Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families
“In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.” HeartLongDreamTogetherJesusSawsSpeechLaughterSittingForestsRanLaughedBrooksSitting Together Author:Khalil Gibran
“Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.” WantWritingTwoSometimesPlayDreamWould BeRememberLinesNovelPiecesHeardSpeechJokesWake UpDialogueCommentWakingCompositionOur Dreams Author:David Mamet
“We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.” PeopleKnowsMenWholeDreamKidsVoiceFourWifeKingsSpeechHolidayStatuesLuther Author:Ava DuVernay
“What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.” CharacterDreamNationsResultsOpinionYouthSpeechPoeticPublic OpinionMorrowInarticulate Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.” PeopleDreamBlackWhiteSpeechLettersRevelationsJailBirminghamI Have A Dream Speech Author:Andrew Young