My sweet wife, knowing my giant (let's say next-to-impossible) intentions about Sane Computers, says to me almost every day: "You are a dreamer".
Is she right? And if so -- is that bad?? I mean, if you DO something about it and with it, other than just sit and contemplate.
Read the quotes below and tell me what YOU think. Notice I left no room for "maybe"; I simply don’t believe there is a middle way here.
Take a stand:
"If you nourish your dreams all things are possible."
--Fred DeLuca, the founder of Subway Restaurants, the largest fast-food sandwich chain in the world, in a recent interview to Fortune Small Business.
I agree.
No way!
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
--Orison Swett Marden
I agree.
No way!
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
I agree.
No way!
"There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
--Wayne Dyer
I agree.
No way!
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
I agree.
No way!
"High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true."
--Robert H. Schuller
I agree.
No way!
"All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true."
--T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia)
I agree.
No way!
"It's not enough to have a dream, unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
--Samuel Smiles
I agree.
No way!
"Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words It's possible, and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest."
--Greg Anderson, US basketball player
I agree.
No way!
"Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much."
--Unknown
I agree.
No way!
"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and
emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways
to get it."
--Greg Anderson, US basketball player
I agree.
No way!
"If your dreams turn to dust... vacuum."
--Unknown
I agree.
No way!
"We grow great by dreams... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish
and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which
comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
--Woodrow Wilson
I agree.
No way!
"Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased
to live."
--Lady Nancy Astor
I agree.
No way!
"Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity."
--Kahill Gibran
I agree.
No way!
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you
can make it so."
--Belva Davis
I agree.
No way!
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes
the goal."
--Pamela Vaull Starr
I agree.
No way!
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
--Walt Disney
I agree.
No way!
"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams
come true."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I agree.
No way!
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of
today and the reality of tomorrow."
--Robert H. Goddard Franklin
I agree.
No way!
"Let your dream devour your life - not your life devour your dream."
--Unknown
I agree.
No way!
"Those who lose dreaming are lost."
--Australian Aboriginal Proverb
I agree.
No way!
"In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they
may thrive and grow."
--Louise Driscoll
I agree.
No way!
"Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've
imagined."
--Henry David Thoreau
I agree.
No way!
"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only
reality."
--Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), US writer
I agree.
No way!
"Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend's hand
~ and hold on forever."
--Traci Brown
"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
--Unknown
I agree.
No way!
"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us
than we have over ourselves."
--Peter McWilliams Author
I agree.
No way!
"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you
airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."
--William James
I agree.
No way!
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a
life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau
I agree.
No way!
"Yes, everybody's dying to be someone else, but I'll live my life if it kills
me."
--E.E. Cummings
I agree.
No way!
"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask."
--Fox Mulder
"People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream --
what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive."
--Xander
I agree.
No way!
"Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress
yourself."
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I agree.
No way!
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg. And in the highest vision of a soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."
--James Allen
I agree.
No way!
"If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-- Henry David Thoreau
I agree.
No way!
So, what do you think? Please send your opinion: click here. Thank you!
