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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. -- Kate Smith
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
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. -- Neil Gaiman
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them. -- Mark Waters
Daydreaming subverts the world. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery. -- Daniel Goleman
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation. -- John Howe
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake. -- Eudora Welty
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing. -- Daniel Goleman
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it -- Thomas S. Monson
A daydream is an evasion. -- Thomas Merton
Everything starts as somebody's daydream. -- Larry Niven
I live my daydreams in music. -- Albert Einstein
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy. -- B. J. Novak
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. -- Steven Wright
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. -- Charlaine Harris
I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers. -- Bruce Dickinson
I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming. -- Jean Dujardin
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. -- Adam Duritz
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways. -- Erik Qualman
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. -- James Duval
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. -- Jenna Fischer
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. -- Christine Keeler
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. -- Antoine Rivarol
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
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
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. -- Ian Mcewan
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. -- George Lucas
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. -- Sandra Cisneros
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
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
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go. -- David Lynch
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. -- Albert Einstein
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. -- James W. Black
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? -- Nikita Khrushchev
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future. -- Taylor Swift
Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain. -- Tony Buzan
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. -- W. H. Auden
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it. -- Jasper Fforde
In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier. -- Michael Connelly
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. -- Sam Rockwell
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking. -- Roy Harper
My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion. -- Jim Parrack
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. -- Charlie McDermott
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. -- Linda McCartney
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm. -- Sandra Cisneros
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B. -- Jenson Button
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. -- Taylor Swift
You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem. -- Carl Honore
Television is simply automated daydreaming. -- Lee Loevinger
Prepare while others are daydreaming. -- William Arthur Ward
Vision without execution is daydreaming. -- Bill Gates
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. -- James Van Fleet
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. -- Michael Pollan
The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming. -- Marty Rubin
True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. -- Ernest Holmes
How's daydreaming affecting nightmares? Showing the light where is all dark! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane. -- Florence Welch
All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming. -- Eda LeShan
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. -- Robert Jordan
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? -- W. Somerset Maugham
A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. -- Dorothy Dunnett
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world. -- Samantha Shannon
I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming. -- Brett Dennen
If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week. -- Bill Beaumont
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. -- Fausto Cercignani
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. -- Tom Peters
There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting. -- Eric Cantona
We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. -- Shannon Hale
I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night -- Simone Elkeles
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
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
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering -- E. O. Wilson
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future. -- John Daishin Buksbazen
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming. -- Gore Vidal
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. -- James W. Black
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. -- Selima Hill
I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it. -- Zach Braff
Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming. -- Suzanne Vega
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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