Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Vision without execution is daydreaming."
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Daydreaming
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music."
Toni Cade Bambara
Writer, Activist
"She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream."
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another."
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"I live my daydreams in music."
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"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
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"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."
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"I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers."
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"A daydream is an evasion."
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"I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that."
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"I get the most joy in life out of music."
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"I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it."
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"If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides."
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"I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators."
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"Daydreams are the delusions of the devil."
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