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“Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.”

Thinking Important Play Feelings Dream Roles Serious Communication Tricks Surprising Frivolous Pun Play On Words

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

“It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.”

People Ifs Long Country Play Dream Serious Killing Teenager Destroying Making Love Remakes Offending

Book:Pedagogy of Indignation

Source: Pedagogy of Indignation

“We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.”

Knows May Dream Sleep Lord Serious Awake Crowns Our Dreams Sleeping In Poppies Lethe

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)

“I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.”

Play Dream Would Be Serious Bass

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.”

Thinking Real Dream Wish Perfect Car Serious Right Now Sells Boring Tickets Bangkok

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.”

“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.”

“So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.”

People Feels I Can Dream Animal Serious Treats Shops Rumor Zoos Barbers Skit Barber Shop

Author:Kanye West

“I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Dream Doubt Serious Miles

Author:Jonathan Meades

“In the beggining of I was getting all this feedback from people saying, "What are you doing? What is this?" But I thought to myself, "This is a great opportunity. This is a perfect bridge to help me achieve my dream and my vision of polo becoming a bigger, more visible sport." So I used the money that I was getting from modeling to buy better horses and to become a better player. So I really believed that if I could elevate my game and show that I was serious about it, then the work I was doing with Ralph Lauren would become that bridge that I was looking for to take the sport further.”

People Helping Dream Opportunity Sports Perfect Vision Player Achieve Serious Horse Help Me Feedback Modeling Great Opportunity

Author:Nacho Figueras