„And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.“

„Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.“

—  George Lucas American film producer 1944

„You tell yourself a dream, always. And when do you dream it?“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

Si yo te diera la vida, ¿qué podría darte?
Voces (1943)

„I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams… no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams. “

—  Jared Leto American actor and musician 1971

„If you have not even dreamed
Of benefiting yourself
Before dreaming of this for sentient beings,
How could you be of benefit to others?“

—  Šantidéva 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685 - 763

Attributed

„It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Prince

Zdroj: Clockwork Prince

„When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 11, p. 187
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Zdroj: Three Weeks With My Brother

„When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

„Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.“

—  William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontext: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

„And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.“

—  Stephen King, kniha Different Seasons

Zdroj: Different Seasons

„You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Prince

Zdroj: Clockwork Prince

„“What can you do?”
“I can bring you in dream to one who dreams of you.”
“Will that help me?”
“No. But you will come, because you will hope that it will.”“

—  John C. Wright, kniha Orphans of Chaos

Zdroj: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 23, “Dreams and Desires” Section 1 (p. 305)

„Shadow is an amazing subject. Shadow is an absence. As an absence of energy you can compare it to silence or maybe cold air…. We talk about photography being simple and architecture being complex and how do you convey something that is more deep, that allows you to dream or think This is weird so you start to dream and think and you maybe go out purely from the picture but into yourself. The light and the shadow are tools to allow you to do that.“

—  Hélène Binet Swiss photographer 1959

Zdroj: Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/december/06/ten-questions-for-photographer-helene-binet/, Phaidon Press, 6 December 2012.

„Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.“

—  Keshia Chante Canadian actor and musician 1988

Official Website (2009)

„If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.“

—  Les Brown American politician 1945

„Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, kniha Hovory k sobě

Zdroj: Meditations

„I've wished for things and never really had the chance… It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then… go.“

—  Deb Caletti American writer 1963

Zdroj: The Six Rules of Maybe

„Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.“

—  Raymond Carver, kniha Cathedral

Zdroj: Cathedral

„You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.“

—  James Anthony Froude, kniha The Nemesis of Faith

Markham Sutherland's father, quoted in Letter I.
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

„Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.“

—  Azar Nafisi, kniha Jak jsme v Teheránu četly Lolitu

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)